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desfubler (c.1136-37)
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desfubler (c.1136-37)

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defobler,  defubler,  desfobler  (defebler,  desoblir)  
  FEW:  *affibulare 24,250a Gdf:  desfubler 2,590a GdfC: ∅ TL: desfubler 2,1595 DEAF:  afubler (desfubler)  DMF:  desfubler  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  diffibulare 657c

v.trans.

1costumeto unclasp, take off (a cloak, etc.): 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Puis i estendent un mantel [...]; Le fiz Heimun le desfublat  GAIMAR1 6389
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Mut tost i veissez desfubler meint mantel  Horn 571
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  il meisme sa chape desfublad  Becket1 6003
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Sa robe defeble erraument  S Fran ANTS 183
2to take away, destroy: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  Taunt cum en Gascoyne la pes est defoblye  LANGTOFT thiol2 231.25
desfubler de
to strip, deprive of: 
( c.1260; MS: c.1275 )  demandom jugement si vous poez desoblir (l. defoblir) de la garantie  Casus Plac 49
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ne estes pas defeblé (l. defublé) de tun chatel  S Fran ANTS 3006
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ne purrez de cest ayde estre defublye!  LANGTOFT thiol2 374.1249

v.refl.

costumeto take off one’s cloak: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Il se desfoble [...] E le mantel il ad iloc desfait  Anc Test (B) 13371

p.p. as a.

costumecloakless, uncloaked: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  La meschine ot le cors mult gent, [...] Devant lu rei fu, desfublee, Qui merveilles l'ad esgardee  Brut WACE 6985
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Mes desfublé remist kar il n’out qu’afubler  Horn 2293
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  Tote defublé comence a aler  Boeve 752
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