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escrever (1155)

escrever (1155)

escriever  
  FEW:  crepare 2/ii,1318b Gdf:  escrever 3,439a GdfC: TL: escrever 3,996 DEAF:  crever (escrever)  DMF:  escrever  TLF: OED:  screeve v.2  MED:  scriven v. 1  DMLBS:

v.trans.

to break
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Se vos par force le (=a hawk) descarnés tost, li porriés un orteil tortre ou escrever  Glan lex 88B

v.intrans.

1to burst
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  cil chaist [...] si ke le qer li fet parfunt escrever  Boeve (D) 1080
to split open
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  sa plaie forment lui greve Ki chascun jur seigne e escreve  S Gile1 3244
2(of day) to break
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Le soleil est levanz e l’aube est escreve[e]  Rom Chev ANTS 5142
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Vendrons demein a letanie [...] Tantost com l’aube ert escrevee  S Greg 1059
escrever a, de plurer
to burst into tears
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Dunc prist Brien a regarder E Brien escrieve a plurer  Brut WACE 14076
( c.1185 )  Atant s’escreve de plurer Cum li quor li deust crever  Proth ANTS 2049
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  Ysolt le (=the ring) prent si le esguardast si se escreve dunc a plurer  Fol Trist ANTS 961
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Li moignes a plurer s’escreve  Mirur1 122ra13
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Atant escreve cil a plurer Ke la dame ne voleint anurer  Mir N-D 179.137

v.refl.

to break
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  cume l’albe s’escreva  Liv Reis1 21
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  [...] quant l’aube se escreve  S Aub 366rubr

See also:

crever 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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