acoupler (1160-74)
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acoupler (1160-74)

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  FEW:  copula 2/ii,1158a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  acoupler 8,28b TL: acopler 1,105 DEAF:  cople (acopler)  DMF:  accoupler  TLF:  accoupler  OED:  accouple v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
acupler;  accoupler,  accouplir,  adcouplir  12 Rich II 154  

v.a.

1to couple, conjoin: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Les chartres en sunt plainnes, tant en y unt geté, En aniaux deuls et deuls en unt maint acouplé  i 123.3304
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Par la ure e le tens acupler As esteilles pur acorder (=for purposes of horoscope)  10775
♦to bring together, unite in sexual intercourse: 
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Al ostel fu le crestien bacheler, Qe od sa (=his master’s) femme sovent jua, […] Tant qe le deable les acopla  9047
♦livestockto yoke, harness together: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  les vaches […] a porter l’arche sunt acuplé  14

inf._as_s.

1encounter, confrontation: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Mais en lur acupler (=J.C. and the Devil) ert deable vencu par mames [sic] les armes parunt il quida veintre  ii 29

p.p._as_a.

(estre) acouplé a, en
1(to be) joined, united in: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  s’il seient acoplez a fei, e esperance, e cherité  2323
( 1308-09 )  en leal matrimoigne acouplé  Ed II i 157
( 1388 )  accouply en loial matrimonie par le ley de seint esglise  12 Rich II 154
coupler 
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