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1mil.weaponsin a cutting or slicing manner, with the blade of a weapon:
(
1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4
) En cest duzime chapitre aprent li auctors les jovenes chivalers de ferir poignanment e non pas trenchanment (ed. trenchaument)vegetius1 15.12
(
1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4
) [...] e ke il aprengent a requere au pé au chef poignanment ou trenchaunment
vegetius1 58.21
♦trenchantly, sharply, curtly:
(
1332
) Puis vynt il a Rysebergh, et la fust il [...] respondu de Johan Nodel […] trenchantment, qe si il voleyt avier esperviers, il les deust quere meismes
Lett AF 143.135
♦intensely, penetratingly:
(
1356-57; MS: s.xivex
) le visage d’un diable, mult terrible a veer [...] si trenchantement regarde toute personne, et ad les oilz si movables et sy scintillantz
Mandeville 446
2as if cut down:
(
s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim
) Alisandre prent la cupe, si en beit bonement. [...] Li beiveres fut ague, e si chet trenchantment
Rom ChevANTS (C) 182
trenchanment (s.xii3/4)