acomencer (1113-19)
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acomencer (1113-19)

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  FEW:  cominitiare 2/ii,944a Gdf:  acommencier 1,65b GdfC: ∅ TL: acomencier 1,98 DEAF:  comencier (acomencier)  DMF:  acommencer  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
acomenser;  acumencer  

v.a.

1 to begin, initiate: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E mult me est a cuntraire Que tant me sui target Que ne l’ai acumencet  26
( 1332; MS: s.xivex ) [c]ome j’ai acomencé matiere de la Saint Terre  313

v.n.

1to begin, commence: 
( c.1192; MS: c.1275 ) Sire Empirere, ore avez ici De ma richece alques oi, Ne mie tuit ne la meité. Ki vus eust ja acumencié E fust cuntant deci ke(n) un an Les merveilles Prestre Johan [...]  140.Y1074
( c.1300; MS: s.xivin )  dissinterie a la foiz acomence en bien e termine en mal  ii 174.154
( c.1356 )  la franchise […] k’ert acomensont a l’entré de la hevene […]  23
acomencement  comencer  encomencer 
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