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enchaitiver (1155)
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enchaitiver (1155)

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encheitiver  
  FEW:  captivus 2/i,330a Gdf:  enchaitivé 3,91b GdfC: ∅ TL: enchaitiver 3,181 DEAF:  chaitif (enchaitiver)  DMF:  enchétivé  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to take captive: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Tute la lignee Eleni [...] E d'altres lignages asez Ke l'on aveit enchaitivez  Brut WACE 154
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les poveres occire, les riches enchaitiver (var. (P: c.1310) chaitiver)  Rom Chev ANTS 1592
( MS: s.xivm )  encheitivauntz chescun entendement a obeir a Christ  S Jer 1va

p.p. as a.

reduced to poverty, dispossessed: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Ma dame ert [...] desheritee, A tuz dis mes enchaitivee (var. (B: s.xivin) en cheitiveté) E guerpira tute sa honur  Ipom BFR 8010

See also:

achaitiver  chaitiver 
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