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directer (1315)
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directer (1315)

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direkter,  diretter, 
(p.p. derect  Roy Lett Hen IV i 434,  direct,  direk  ROUGH 26,  direit  Northumb 129,  diretté  YBB Ed II iv 100 ),
(pl. directis)  
  FEW:  directus *3,90a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  direct (directer)  DMF:  directer  TLF: ∅ OED:  direct v.  MED:  directen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1 to direct, order: 
( 1373 )  par vertu de comission [...] le roi a lui direct d’enquer sur [...]  Northumb 34
2to direct, intend: 
( 1315 )  l’averement qe vous tendetz serreit directe (l. directé?) a voyder la fyn  YBB Ed II xvii 123
3lawto address: 
( 1317 )  le brief dust naturelment estre directé au vicounte ou le trespas est assigné  YBB Ed II xxii 220
( 1471-72 )  le roy direct son breve a eux commandant [...]  Exchequer Chamber ii 189.30

p.p. as a.

direct a
law (of letters, documents, etc.) addressed to: 
( 1330 )  la copie du bref le roi direct as tresorer et barons de l’escheqer  Rot Parl2 191
( c.1340 )  lettres […] directees aux mayres  Blk Bk Adm 8
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  vos tres reverentez lettres a moy nadgairs directis  SAMPS1 371
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  voz tres gracieuses lettres directz as ditz justices  Lett & Pet 2.iii.9
( 1418-19 ) un supplicacioun de par lez meistre et gardeins direct as mair et aldermans  Mch Tayl Accs2 279 (6 Henry V)
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