1to oppress:
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xivm
)
les felones pensent touz jours coment il poent les simples gentz enginer
(var. (B: c.1330) engrever) e meffer
68
(
1400
)
ils sont […] en poynt […] d’estre destruez […] par lour ennemys […] si assiduelment les engrevantz noet et jour
272
♦
to crush, get the better of:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Kar seinte tens e seint liu, ure e
(l. urer ? = praying, prayer) en ordré manere engrevent mut le pecché
574.30
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