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deserter (c.1136-37)

deserter (c.1136-37)

desserter  
  FEW:  desertare 3,52b / desertum 1 3,52b Gdf:  deserter 1 2,379a GdfC:  deserter 9,332b TL: deserter 2,1568 DEAF:  desert 1 (deserter)  DMF:  déserter 1  / déserter 2  TLF:  déserter  OED:  desert v.  MED: DMLBS:  desertare 1 628a

v.trans.

1to abandon, forsake, leave behind
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiiin )  Nostre char devums deserter Que halt puissums a Deu canter  Miserere 33
2to destroy, ravage
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  [L’altre ost] qui fud de cels sevrez Esteit el Maine einz desertez  GAIMAR1 3396
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Lur enfanz enpledouz E si lé dessertouesz (var. (C: s.xiiiin) deseritoies). Par tel felunie Cressayt ta manantye  thaon Body and Soul (H) 44
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  destruire volt e deserter ces ki soleient Baal cultiver  Liv Reis1 195
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  les deux eglises [...] estoient desertez de lour clergie  TREVET Cron1 195.5

v.absol.

1 to forsake, give up
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Chascun se deit forment pener De sun bon pere resembler; Hunte puet aveir ki desert, Que l'erité sun pere pert  Brut WACE 12491
2to maraud, wreak havoc
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Dunc vindrent [la] paiene gent. [E]l havene del Humbre ariverent, En Lindeseie [deserterent]  (ms. desheriterent)  GAIMAR1 2160

p.p. as a.

1deserted, uninhabited
( MS: 1155-60 )  en tere desertethe (Latin: in terra deserta)  Camb Ps 274.13
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Si poeplierent la cuntree Ou gaste fu e desertee  S Edm Life ANTS 430
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  trestot donot [...] As solitaires reclusoires, As desertees ermitoires  S Greg 1544
2laid waste, ravaged
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Macedoigne destruite e Grece desherite[e] (var. (C: s.xiiim) desertee)  Rom Chev ANTS 3130
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  avisunches i ad cité Ke tute ne seit deserté  Brut Royal 786

p.p. as s.

desert, wilderness
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Guerpiz sumes en desertez Par noz orgoilz, par noz pecchez  Mirur2 1640
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