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defuir2 (c.1136-37)

The form defouir is a cross reference to the following entry:

defuir2 (c.1136-37)

defoir,  defouir;  deffoir,  desfuir  
  FEW:  fodere 3,663b Gdf:  desfoer 2,587b / desfoir 2,587b GdfC: TL: desfoïr 2,1591 DEAF:  fuir (defuir)  DMF:  desfouir  TLF: OED: MED:  diffode v.  DMLBS:  defodere 593c

v.intrans.

to exhume, disinter
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Puis en perdit W. la teste [...] e a Wincestre Lung tens aprés fud defuid  GAIMAR1 5723
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Le seint cors del martyr Edmund Funt ignelement defuir  S Edm Life ANTS 2959
to dig (up), excavate
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Deforras (Latin: effoderis) la come tresor  Salemon 1699
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1300 )  Mut fist mal [...] Cil ki primes quist minere, E defuir fist la terre Pur or e pur argent querre  Rom Phil 661
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Tantost a la tumbe s’en vunt E bonement defui l’unt  Mir N-D 85.80

p.p. as a.

unburied
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ilokes (=on Calvary) gisont sovent cors porriz pardesus  (ed. par de sus) la terre defoyiz  (ed. de foyiz) (var. (BN: s.xivin) desfuiz) e deseveliz  Ancren2 206.10

See also:

fuir2 
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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