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destruiement (s.xii1)

destruiement (s.xii1)

destruement,  destruiment  
  FEW:  destruere *3,56a Gdf:  destruiement 2,675a GdfC: TL: destruiement 2,1805 DEAF:  destruire (destruiement)  DMF:  destruiement  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

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1destruction, devastation
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Plungé sunt la gent el destruement (Latin: interitum) que il firent  Camb Ps 12.IX.15
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Dunc iert destruiement De tute humeine gent  Sibile 1086
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  dulur [...] des plaies qui lur sunt faites el destruiement del cors  Eluc 82.10
2law(personal, financial) ruin, undoing
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  [L]es gardeors de la terre […] ne pregne [sic] de la terre de l’eir fors reignables issues […], e ce senz destruiement e senz vast des homes e des choses  Magna Carta 357.4
undoing, defeat
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Veiez ses enemis aler a sun destruiement  FANT OUP 1042
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Le terz jour aprés jeta A. ces soorz e vist ben e conu le destruement Charlys  Turpin 264
faire destruiement
lawto commit destruction, illegal damage
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  se nos avons livrié la garde de la terre d’aucuni itel a visconte [...] et cil de la garde fera destruiment o gast  Magna Carta 357.4
faire destruiement de
to bring down, defeat
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  de tuz les paens nus fist destruiement  Horn 3611
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