absolu (1121-25)
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absolu (1121-25)

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  FEW:  absolvere 24,54b Gdf:  assoudre 1,452a GdfC:  asolu 8,204c TL: absolu 1,67 DEAF:  absolu  DMF:  absolu  TLF:  absolu  OED:  absolute a., adv. and n.  MED:  absolut ppl.  DMLBS:  absolvere (absolutus) 9b
absolud,  absolut,  absoluth  

a.

1 free, unrestricted: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Si auques poez durer, la decerte ert rendue; En Grece ert meri[e] , la terre absolue  4572
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Va nos en cel chastel ou sunt li mescreu Et diez de part nos [...] si rendre le volent [...], Tuit se porent aler quite et absolu  275
♦ theol. absolved, pardoned, free from sin: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  Filz, la tue aname el ciel seit absoluthe!  410
( c.1195; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  El tens Seint Patriz par licence Pristrent li plusur penitence. Quant il esteient absolu [...]  353
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Par repentance eietz garant De tes pecches, dont absolu Estre porretz  22954
jusdi absolu
1 eccl. liturgical time Holy, Maundy Thursday: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Par mer d’ileoc se sunt tolud, Desque al jusdi vint absolud  822
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ço fud le joesdi absolu Que pechié ot issi tolu  8335
( 1283 )  Ceste lettre fut escrite a Canterbire le joudi bbsolut  ii 538

s.

1 free, unrestricted one: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ja Alisandre ne verra Grece l’absolue Car en Inde majur deit corner recr[e]ue  7261
jur de l’absolu
1 eccl. liturgical time Holy, Maundy Thursday: 
( 1289-90 )  Nous vous commaunduns qe vous trovez au covent gasteux e au poveres payn e potage le jour de l’absolu  164
absoluement  absolution  absolver  assoudre 
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