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cherir1 (1155)
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cherir1 (1155)

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cherer,  cherier;  cherrir;  chierir;  scherir  
  FEW:  carus 2/i,442b Gdf:  cherir 2,106a GdfC:  cherir 9,70c TL: chierir 2,399 DEAF:  chier (chierir)  DMF:  chérir  TLF:  chérir  OED:  cherish v.  MED:  cherishen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to cherish: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Jo te cheriseie e amoue Plus ke nule altre  Brut WACE 1763
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  K’a tuz jorz de sa vie les tendreit si chier, Amereit e chierireit  FANT OUP 924
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  L'esveske tant l'ama e scheri, Ke [...]  Mir N-D 106.XXIII.109
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiii2 )  et vostre prosme [...] amez Cum vus memes cheriez  Am Dieu (B) 56
( 1413 )  pur cherier les estrangiers ses amys  Rot Parl1 iv 3
♦look after, care for: 
( 1384 )  lequel fry s’il feust gardez et cherriz il serroit grant profit a les seignurs  Rot Parl1 iii 201
( 1387-88 )  mesfesours et meyntenours en pais meultz puniz et chastiez, et les bons et loialx meultz cherriz et guerdonez  Rot Parl1 iii 228
( 1407 )  qe toutz ceux qi furent ovesqe [...] le prince en Gales [...] purroient estre cheriz et commendez solonc leur bon descert  Rot Parl1 iii 612
2merch.to raise in price, make dearer: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  tuz forstallours par queux vitaille e danrees sunt cheries  Mir Just 28

p.p. as a.

tenir cheri
to hold dear, cherish: 
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) Charité comprent en soy Qe m'alme tendray plus cheri Que je ne fray le corps d'autri  GOWER Mirour 13614
( 1397; MS: s.xivex ) Albins [...] Occist [...] Le roi Gurmond par sa chivalerie; Si espousa sa file et tint cherie  GOWER Traitié 386.xi.5

See also:

acherir  encherir  escherir1 
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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