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convencre (s.xiiiin)
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convencre (s.xiiiin)

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cunvencre;  convaincre  
  FEW:  convincere 2/ii,1135b Gdf:  convaincre 2,285c GdfC:  convaincre 9,189a TL: conveincre 2,815 DEAF:  conveincre  DMF:  convaincre  TLF:  convaincre  OED:  convince v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  convincere 483a

v.trans.

1mil.to vanquish, defeat: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  vus querez acheisun […] que en desputer ne entrissez, Kar asez avez entendu Que tut i serrez cunvencu  S Clem ANTS 3076
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  ascun foiz par temptacioun sount convictz (Latin: temptacionibus […] victi sunt)  Lichfield 61
2lawto convict: 
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  [N]os ne tendrons les terres de cels qui seront convencu de felonie fors un an e un jor  Magna Carta 360.32
( 1324-25 )  […] un R. […] fuist pris et convict devaunt mesmes les Justices  Rot Parl1 i 424
( 1363-64 )  si elle serra sur ceo attainte ou convaincue  Stats i 387
( 1393-94 )  […] furent convictez par force d’un estatut  Rot Parl1 iii 324
( c.1398 )  si ascun homme […] soit conventu (l. convencu) ou trové feisaunt disloialté […]  YMB i 94
( 1414 )  ils furent convictz par enquest  Rot Parl1 iv 21

p.p. as a.

convicted: 
( 1303 )  il i sont plusours clerks en la prisoune de N. convictz qi par droict deussent avoir esté deliverez a l’evesqe  King’s Bench ii.cxlviii
( 1414 )  soient tenuz et ajuggez pur convictz  Rot Parl1 iv 26

p.p. as s.

convicted person: 
( 1414 )  les biens et chateux de tieux convictz […]  Rot Parl1 iv 24
( 1439 )  […] al oeps de tieux convictz  Rot Parl1 v 24
convict de, en
convicted of: 
( 1304-05 )  ele n’est mie convicte des choses dount ele est empeché  Lett EPW1 34
( c.1356 )  convykt en perjurie  ROUGH 19
( 1485-1509 )  […] est convict de diverses […] sur peyne de x li. appaiers de chaumbre pur chascun foitz q’il est convit del prise a l’ encontre  TNA E163/9/21/ f.20r
nient convict
unconvicted: 
( 1414 )  si ascun tiel enditee […] devie nient convict  Rot Parl1 iv 25

See also:

convicter 
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