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communer3 (s.xii1)
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communer3 (s.xii1)

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communere,  communier;  comunier,  comuner,  comigner;  cummunier  
  FEW:  communis 2/ii,962a Gdf:  communer 2,198c GdfC: ∅ TL: comuner 2,646 DEAF:  comun (comuner 1)  DMF:  communer  TLF: ∅ OED:  common v.  MED:  communen v.  DMLBS:  communare 1 398a

v.trans.

to share: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  je ferai encor le gaaing communer, Si que tuit en seronz et compaingnon et per  Rom de Rou wace i 147.4062
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Ne vot cel bien (=an edifying book) sule celer, Mes ou Modwen comunier  S Osith 238
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  chescun home ki d’alt[r]e aprent Od sun doctur deit comuigner De tuz ses biens sanz demander  Mirur2 60va13
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  reson est ke tuz autri biens seient a vus comons, puis ke vus comunez vostre bien a tuz  Ancren2 7.3
♦eccl.liturgicalto receive (sacrament): 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  por ceo [qe] chesqun Cristien deit estre comunié au meyns le jour de Paske mout devoutement  Mirour Egl 39.30
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  les Engleis les fesoint confesser […] et lour sacramentz de seinte esglise communere  Anon Chr1 25.20

v.intrans.

1to share: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ki volenters comunera, E Deu volenters li durra  Mirur2 661
♦theol.to communicate, receive communion: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  humme repariller En grace par pecché parduner - A ces ke membres sunt (var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) communé vnt) sulement  Lum Lais ANTS 7445
2 to associate (with), have relations (with): 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) ne communierai ot les esliz d'elz  Oxf Ps ANTS 128.140.5
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  il les asoleit tuz […] del pechié Qu’as escumeniez orent communié  Becket1 4590
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  (the cured leper must) od la gent comunier  Mirur1 148ra1
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  qe nul atiels […] ne lour doyne a manger ne a boyre ne ovekes eux ne commune en nule manere  BRITT i 65
♦to live together: 
( MS: s.xiiim )  Pur ce pri cummuniun (=sbj.pr.5) ) (var. (H: c.1335) communiun ) cum feimes devant  Vitas 2439
3to take counsel, discuss (with): 
( 1383 )  vous […] veuilliez comuner diligeaument sur cestes matires  Rot Parl1 iii 151
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  nous assignerons nostre Conseil de comuner ovec vous et ordeigner le mielx que nous purrons en ce fait  Lett & Pet 305.24
( 1481-82 )  je ay communé en ceo point ové doctourz  Exchequer Chamber ii 49.6
4lawlivestockto have right of common (over land): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et sunt autres personeles acciouns […] cum est de communer a un abevrour ovek ses avers  BRITT i 176
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  vos foresters […] ont ore tard destourbez mes tenantz […] pour communer ovesque leur bestes en la pasture du dit forest  Lett & Pet 151.102.4
♦lawlivestockto be grazed in common: 
( 1303 )  ceaux ount graunté les treis parties de totes lé caump’ W. de B. […] a communer […] a totes maners des avers  Reg Kellawe iii 34

v.refl.

to associate (with), have relations (with): 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  li fiz Israel se comunierent a un pecchur  Joshua Sermons ii 23
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