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avoué (c.1136-37)
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avoué (c.1136-37)

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avué,  avuet,  avoé,  avowé,  avouwé,  avoié;  avowee,  awouee,  awué,  awouhé,  awouhée  
  FEW:  advocatus 24,203a Gdf:  avoet 1,536a GdfC:  avoué 8,261b TL: avöé 1,747 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  avoué  TLF:  avoué  OED:  advowee n.  / avowe n.  MED:  avoue n.  DMLBS:  advocare 1 (advocatus) 38c

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1also_fig.guardian, protector: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  ert clamé Pastor e pere e avoué  S Greg 2728
( c.1276 )  le Evesque de Wincestre, cum a celuy ke est et deyt estre awué et defensor de l’Eveschie de W. […]  PONTISSARA ii 664.3
♦lawwedded lord, guardian: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Or si prenge Rigmel, si seit son avoé  Horn 4524
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  En garde (=wardship) sunt serfs, femmes espouses […] femmes qe sunt en la garde de lur avoé en qi mariages eles sont  Mir Just 119
2eccl.patron (especially one with right to present to a benefice): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  avowé est cist, a qi le dreit de l’avowesoun de acune eglise apent  BRITT ii 174
( 1304 )  ne il ne nul des countes avowez unkes rien n’aveyent en fees ne en avowesouns en tens de vacacioun  YBB 32-33 Ed I 211
( 1345 )  le prior serreit avowé a qi presentement la persone serreit resceu  YBB 19 Ed III 471
( 1350-51 )  patron ou avowé des dites dignités & benefices  Stats i 317
♦eccl.patron saint: 
( 1140-1160; MS: 1140-1160 )  jo, mult liez e mult joius pur l’amur de Deu e de seint Pierre ki j’ai fait mun avoé desuz Deu  Ely Arch 265.1.24
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  seint André Qui de s’iglise ert avoué  S Greg 474
( 1303 )  pur la devocion qe nous avoms a Seint Cuthbert advoé de l’eglise  Reg Kellawe iv 499
3lord: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  A Antioche [la] cité, La fu tenu pur avoué, Il la cunquist cum [ber] vaillant  GAIMAR1 5754
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Metez sur vus tel avué Ki pur sun sens seit reduté  S Edw barking 1761
♦(feudal) lord: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  Nus irrom quere mun seynur e avouez  Boeve 2963
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  E jure Mahun sun avoué  Gui War 11876
( 1381 )  je devise les deux maisons de Caldewell et Bisshmede, dont je suy avowé, a chescun chanon de l’un et l’autre maison  Test Ebor i 114
♦leader: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Li lere ourent un avoié Que G. fud apelé  S Modw 953
4fig.owner: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Maint cler haume desenarmé, Maint brant d’acer sanz avoé  S Modw 8308
5monasticeccl.professed member of Order: 
( 1313-14 )  Warr. demand s’il fust avowé (=as Hospitaller)  YBB Ed II vii 52

See also:

avouer2  vouer2 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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