acoucher (1160-74)
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acoucher (1160-74)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,908b collocare; Gdf: 1,63c acolchier /3,120a encouchier; GdfC: 8,27c acouchier; TL: 1,120 acouchier /3,258 encouchier; DEAF:  couchier (acouchier, encouchier); DMF:  accoucher / encoucher; TLF:  accoucher; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
acocher,  acochier,  achocher;  acucher,  aculcher,  aculchier;  encocher,  encucher  

v.a.

1to make lie together: 
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1400 )  le diable […] les acoucha […] Et eles conceurent  (E) 49va

v.n.

1to lie down: 
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  et se mist a genoils, acochant a la tere  79.13
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Tel fais (=burden) deit l'em porter e enbracier Qu'il ne l'estoce par desoz a oschier (l. aoschier) (var. (P2: s.xiii4/4) acochier; (L: c.1300) abocheir)  792 (var.)
2to go to bed: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  li reis [...] A Roem vint, si acocha  ii 224.9097
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E aculchad e jut encuntre lit e mangier ne volt  165
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiiim )  La nuit quant vous encocherez  250 (var. B19)
♦to take to one’s (sick) bed: 
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  un chivalers […] achocha malades  212

v.refl.

1to go to bed: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Del lit u il s’est aculchied ne leverat  173
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Les filles Loth, quant unt perdu lur mere, Querent del vin, si enivererent lur pere. L’einzné s’en vet aprés sun pere cucher, Un fiz engendre […] A l’autre nuit s’acucha la puisnee, Amon engendre dunt fu mult lee  (E) 592
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