1to afflict, oppress:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) [...] kar tu nus salvas des afflianz nus, e les haanz nus confundies
68.43.9
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
Afflisis les pueples, e fors enveias eals
(Latin: afflixisti plebes, et emisisti eos)
75.XLIII.2
♦
emotionto afflict, distress:
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
(J.C.) Ma flor qui pur giel ne s'esmaie, Mon solail quant iver m'efflaie
1882
2to mortify:
(
s.xiii2
)
ke frunt cil ermite Ke tant unt la char afflite [...]? Dunke unt la pire vie eslite
5.56
1med.to hurt, be painful:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
la dolor dé dens qui vient del vice de cervel afflit et tient a la fiez pa[r] diz houres […]
i 194
1emotionafflicted, downcast:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2/4
)
Quant li seinz huem venir le vit, Si
(ms. Issi) desiré
(=‘déchiré’) e tant aflit
932
(
1435
)
avé donné a nos povres cuers afflictz [...] grant consolacion
438
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