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aparisance (c.1275)
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aparisance (c.1275)

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aparissance;  aparisaunce,  apparisaunce  
  FEW:  *apparescere 25,25a Gdf:  aparissance 1,322a GdfC: ∅ TL: aparissance 1,427 DEAF:  paroir (*)  DMF:  apparissance  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED:  ap(p)arisaunce n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1appearance, look: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  la cité, ceo est le overture e l’aparisance de sa pensee  Ancren2 183.29
♦apparition: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Pus […] fu ben trové […] Ke la aparysaunce fu veritable  S Fran ANTS 1747
2trace, sign: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  la terre se cloust sanz nul apparisaunce  TREVET Cron1 280.15
3lawappearance (in court): 
( 1313 )  Vous avez fet defaute aprés aparisaunce  YBB Ed II xiv.ii 12
( 1315 )  de l’houre q’il apparut etc., la quele apparisaunce dona plein pouer et jur[i]sdiccioun a la court  YBB Ed II xvi.i 43
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