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desreier (1155)

desreier (1155)

derayer,  dereer;  desraer,  desraier,  desreer  
  FEW:  *arredare 1,145a / *reþs 16,699a Gdf:  desreer 2,639c GdfC: TL: desrëer 2,1723 DEAF:  roi 1 (desreer)  DMF:  desroyer  TLF: OED:  deray v.  MED:  disaraien v.  DMLBS:

v.intrans.

1mil.to move out of line, break ranks
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quant Cesar out tut ordené, A tuz ad dist e deveé Que pur nule rien que il veient Li un des altres ne desreient  Brut WACE 4586
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Dunc veissez desraier ces bachelers legers  Rom Chev ANTS 4032
2to rage, create chaos and disorder
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  (the pestilence killed the pope) E pués desreiot tant a rage El poeple [...] Q’a peine en remist nus oem quite  S Greg 784
3to act wildly
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Car veirement, s’en lui ne fust (=the Devil in Gregory’s horse), Tant desreier nis ne peust  S Greg 2488

v.refl.

1mil.to move out of line, break ranks
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  N'i ait si pruz ki se desrait Ne si coart ki pruz ne seit  Brut WACE 4587
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E se vet errant (var. (C: s.xiiim) deraant) hors des rengs de la place  Rom Chev ANTS 2175
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  la vei un arester, Ke se porofre de juster [...] Veez vus, cum il se desreie? La premere juste en ert meie  Ipom BFR 3623
( MS: s.xiii )  Ke a son sennior trop se deray (is a fool)  Folies (G) 18
2to exceed all bounds
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Certes, angoisse se desraie Qui n’a mesure ne manaie  Ross ANTS 485
to act wildly, uncontrollably
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Dunt vient a home que d’orgoil se desreie?  Rom rom 165
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  La gent laenz (=in the hall) se desree E haut e bas comunaument Crient e huchent durement  S Osith 538
(of epidemic) to break out, rage
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Tant se desreie a desmesure Cist mortaus glaives  S Greg 969
(of fire, lava) to erupt, be ejected, emitted
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) Ethna [...]. E de ço est la grant merveille ke a saetisme an acustu[meement] ist le fu e se deree. E gasteroit tut le païs,  Iter paris 135
3equit.(of horses) to charge, rush across, over
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les chevals sunt covers qui desuz eaux se desraient  Rom Chev ANTS 2146
( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii1 )  Cel (=horse) a C. se desraie Et l’Ysodt conte lui s’arbroie  Trist thomas2 1147
se desreier de (+ inf.)
to rush off to
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ynguar [...] D’errer se haste e se desreie, A grant espleit tenent lur veie  S Edm Life ANTS 2207

p.p. as a.

unruly, violent
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  S. le desreié En sa main tint un bon espé  Ipom BFR 6089
( s.xiii2; MS: 1333-34 )  cele gent desraee  Geanz Verse (A) 495
disturbed, excited
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Le roy se tint en pes, n’est point desreez  Rom Chev ANTS 2445
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