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adamager (s.xivin)

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adamager (s.xivin)

adamagier,  adommagier  
  FEW:  damnum 3,10b Gdf:  adamagier 1,94b GdfC: TL: adamagier 1,133 DEAF:  dam (adamagier)  DMF:  adommager  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

v.trans.

to harm, damage
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim ) Tuz (=wolves) sunt damaches e privez, Nul n’est par els damagez (var. (W: s.xivin) adamagez )  S Modw 306 (var.)
( 1338 )  s’il avenoit qe nostre sire le roi, ses gentz ou aidantz ou autres […] vousissent venir en Flandres […] pur faire damage au counte […] ou pur passer par Flandres pur adamagier le dit sire Philip  Treaty Rolls ii 118
( 1411 )  jusquez au jourdhuy, a nostre cognoissance, n’est pas venu que par maniere de pillage ou de robberie aucuns Englois aient par aucuns de Flandres esté grevés ou adommagiés  Roy Lett Hen IV ii 299
law to injure, inflict loss on
( 1359 ) que les dis marchans, leur varlettis ne leur biens ne seront arrestees, grevees, attachiés, molestees ne adamagiés pour nulle maniere de debte  Merchant Adventurers 200.23

See also:

endamager  damager 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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