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cointement (1121-35)
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cointement (1121-35)

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cueintement,  cuintement;  qeintement;  quaintement,  queintement,  quintement,  quointement;  koentement  (coytement  BOZ Char p.39,  quientement  A-N Med i 68)  
  FEW:  cognitus 2/i,843b Gdf:  cointement 1 2,174b GdfC: ∅ TL: cointe (cointement)  DEAF:  cointe (cointement 1)  DMF:  cointement  TLF: ∅ OED:  quaintly adv.  MED:  queintli adv.  DMLBS: ∅

adv.

1cleverly, skilfully: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Deguisee garnemenz […] Des peals de chameles quointement tissuz  Rom Chev ANTS 5549
( 1343-50 )  par escheles queintement faitz de corde  Cron Lond1 47.1
♦wisely: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Le grenét qu’il (=the ant) ad En dous parz la fendrat, Issi le fait cointement Qu’en iver faim ne.l prent  Best ants 933
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  vus ne avez leissié rien Que dit ne eiez mult cuintement Quanque a purveance apent  S Clem ANTS 7649
♦prophetically, with foreknowledge: 
( MS: s.xiiiex ) presagoreutice: (C) coyntement  TLL ii 138.61
♦carefully, diligently: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  (in treating damage to the head) un drap de lin mult delié entre le test e la dure meire cointement en escleng metez dedenz  A-N Med i 45
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Pur ceo vus devez veirement De teus mals garder cointement  Secr abernun 1610
♦prudently, discreetly: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ne veut ke blasme en ait, si respunt cointement  Horn 835
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Un des set i aturnerent […] D’aler enz la bone cité […] por enquerre Nuveles […]. Mut cuintement iceo feseit, Car de trestuz cunuz esteit  Set Dorm ANTS 505
2craftily: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  le deble […] Mult cointement l’out deceu  Mir N-D 100.76
( 1263; MS: s.xiii2 )  Tot le soen fu besilé E cointement fu detrussé  Pol Songs 18.71
3secretly: 
( s.xii1/3 )  E hom qui ceste pere avra E chastement (var. (L: s.xiiex) cointement) la portera, Ja fudre mal ne li fera  Lapid 218.434 (var.)
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Nul ne siet de son voler, tant overe cointement  Rom Chev ANTS 2658
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Les cors k’il cointement sustrait, Li crestiens enterrer fait  S Aub 227rubr
♦quietly: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Entendez tut queintement (Latin: tacitus) Çoe ke dient la gent  CATO ANON ANTS 40.898
4elegantly: 
( c.1185 )  la sale […] Qui cointement fut aturnee  Proth ANTS 4785
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Mut cointement tost se atifferent  Josaphaz2 1803

See also:

cointance  cointe  cointer  cointerel  cointerie  cointet  cointise  cointoier 
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