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[covenancer]2 (s.xiii1/4)
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[covenancer]2 (s.xiii1/4)

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covenoncer,  covenoncier;  cuvenancer  
  FEW:  convenire 2/ii,1127a Gdf:  covenancier 3 2,347a GdfC: ∅ TL: covenancier 2 2,978 DEAF:  covenir (covencier 2)  DMF:  convenancier  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1one who makes an agreement: 
( c.1356 )  a qele cité, borgh ou vile, ou le dit detour, covenoncier ou trespasour soit demuront  ROUGH 16
2ship.salvor: 
( 1353 )  qe nous vous dusoms certifier de la aventure de la Nief qe fust perie […] et coment il fust de ceo et de les noms de les covenoncers  ROUGH 55
3mil.mercenary soldier: 
( MS: s.xiii1/4 )  Congittus, dicitur mensura, unde dicuntur congionarii, cuvenancers, scilicet milites qui eam accipiunt  Gloss Bod 730 pims 37.111
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