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noef2 (c.1136-37)
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noef2 (c.1136-37)

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nef,  neof,  neuf;  nief;  nof,  nouf;  nuef,  nuf; 
f. nefe,  neove,  neuve,  neve,  noeve,  nouve,  nove,  nueve,  nuve  (neoff  GAUNT1 ii 71,  neoph  Northumb 29,  neu (l. nev[e]?),  noif  Five Med MSS 65.W84,  nuuef  Pop Med 292.220 ),
(pl. nus  Purg S Pat berol (T) 724)  
  FEW:  novus 7,211b Gdf:  neuf 5,491c GdfC:  nuef 2 10,214c TL: nuef 2 6,884 DEAF:  nuef 2  DMF:  neuf 1  TLF:  neuf 2  OED:  new a. and n.  MED:  neue a.  DMLBS:  novus 1941a

a.

1new, not previously known or experienced: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  novele tel costome a, Qui ne l'ot nove, viez l’orra  Rom de Rou wace ii 104.5884
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  Vos procuretz [...] A vous mesmes hounte neove (var. (R: s.xivin) nouve; (A: s.xivm) nove)  BOZ Prov (S) 20.40
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiv1 )  En orayson toz jorz, et nuit et jor, le trove, Cum cil qui vodra fayre chivalarie nove  Purg S Pat berol (T) 156
2newly made or produced: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  La u cel arc fud aprested Un nof ostel i ot posed  GAIMAR1 4410
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  As esquiers e as servanz [...] Donot robe nove a cel jour (=Easter)  S Greg 1604
( c.1275; MS: c.1275 )  chescune carecte ke porte neves seles a carectes (=cart-saddles) [...] doit de custume .ij. d.  Winchester2 40.50
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  un drap linge, viel ou noef  Pop Med 152.102
( 1433-34 ) Item d'un autre forein pur faisure novez doublettis - .xl. d.  Mch Tayl Accs2 280 (12 Henry VI)
3clean, fresh, unused: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1245 )  Item boillez chenlange e morele en cerveise de brais en un noef pot, si en bevez le seir chaud e le matin freid  Pop Med 122.148
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  metez cé choses en un nouf pot  Alchimie 395.66
( MS: s.xv )  Ardez un nayer crapouud en un nef pot [...]  Five Med MSS 123.E68
lei noeve
Bibl.New Testament: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Mult parlerent des escriz, De la lei noeve e de la viez  S Clem ANTS 2832
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 )  e cela (=Jerusalem) apela il tuz jurs, a custume de la neu (l. nev[e]?) loi, sa cité demeine  Iter paris 139
Troye Noeve
Troye1
faire la nove sauce pire du prime
prov.to worsen a situation: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  Venuz sunt au roys de sa pees prier, Ly roys sur la demaunde les fet ajourner; Dount durement me doute qe curtaysye de qoer Nous fra la nove sause pire du prime  LANGTOFT thiol2 413.2195

adv.

ore noef
now, presently: 
( 1292 )  Jeo ay mun purpos ke ore neu jeo plede  YBB 20-21 Ed I 253

[gdw]

See also:

novation  noevement  novel  novice 
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