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veiller (c.1136-65)
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veiller (c.1136-65)

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veillier;  vailler;  veiler,  velier,  vellier;  veler,  veller,  vellir,  veillir  

v.trans.

1to wake (up): 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  quidaunt la dame dormante, lui moveit la mein pur lui veiller  TREVET Cron1 209.6
2to keep awake: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Mult se espounte lé chivalers Et si doel le argue e veille  Amis 724 (var. C7)
3to guard: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Dehé eit le clergon qui son mestre si veille!  Rom Chev ANTS 487
( 1318 )  et veillont et gardont le dit chastel  Northumb 182

v.intrans.

1to be, lie awake: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  Veilliout la nuit, dormid le jur  S Edm Pass ANTS 354
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1300 )  Lequel dormez vus u veillez?  Dial Jul 1357
2to wake up: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  La dame s'esperi e del songe veilla  Rom Chev ANTS 240
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  l'oingnon [...] engendre seyf en bouche, enflure en cors, [...] horribul songe en dormant, suour en veillant  BOZ Cont 109
3to stay up late: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  Pour trop veller (M.E. wakyng) homme baile  bibb MS (O) 334ra
4to work late, be diligent: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  A tuz escolers ensample donez, E matire pur bien estudier E bien veiller, pur espleiter  Secr abernun 1173
5to keep vigil (devotional): 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E as festes altresi [...] Sout il veiller devant le alter  Mir N-D 257.85
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  De jurs geune et de noitz veille  S Edw paris ANTS 466
6to keep watch, be on look-out: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  autres del port de Witsant ke en la mer la nuit veillierent  S Rich ANTS 1559
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to keep watch over (a corpse): 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  La nuit ly veilerent deskes ajornez, a l'emdemain est le cors enterez  Boeve 3782
( c.1300 )  trover un homme a veiller al corps celuy nutz que le mort girra en sa meysoun  Oak Book i 28

sbst. inf.

(devotional) vigil: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Oreisons, veiller, jeuner ...  Salemon 7801
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  I soleient mult repeirer E od lumere e od veiller  S Edm Life ANTS 2888
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E tute nuit par mon veiller Devant sun (= B.V.M.'s) ymage ...  Mir N-D 261.259

See also:

veillant1 
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