We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
bastoner (s.xii3/4)
Cite this entry

bastoner (s.xii3/4)

Cite this entry
bastuner  
  FEW:  bastum 1,279b Gdf:  bastoner 1,595c GdfC:  bastoner 8,302c TL: bastoner 1,867 DEAF:  baston (bastoner)  DMF:  bâtonner  TLF:  bastonner  OED:  baston v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  bastonare 186c

v.trans.

1to reproach, reprove: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  ja furent bien bastuné Pur la fieblesce de lur fei  S Jean ANTS 620
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  E tant cum Deus plus le (=sinner) bastune, E plus suvent del bien li dune  Mirur1 167ra38
2to pester: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Tant li dit li bons reis e tant le bastuna Que li reis d’Engleterre li dit e graanta Que [...]  Becket1 4241

v.intrans.

mil.to fight with sticks: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ly un ont eskirmy, ly autre bastoné, Ly auquant [ont] luté, li plusor bohordé  Rom Chev ANTS 130
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.
bastoner