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agisir (1140-1160)
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agisir (1140-1160)

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adjesir,  adgisir,  ajesir; 
p.pr. adgisant,  adjesant,  agisant,  agisaunt,  ajesaunt  
  FEW:  adjacere  24,158a / adjacens 24,155a Gdf:  agesir 1,160a / adjecent 1,105b GdfC:  adjacent 8,33b TL: ajesir 1,265 DEAF:  agesir  DMF:  agésir  / adjacent  TLF:  adjacent  OED:  adjacent adj., n.  MED:  adjacent n.  DMLBS:  adjacere 

v.intrans.

agisir a, en
1 to lie near, be adjacent: 
( 1140-1160; MS: 1140-1160 )  Pur ço si mandum e pur apostoliel dreiture cumandum que cel yglise seit franche od tutes les choses ki i sunt et ki y agisent u agirrunt en celles  Ely Arch 268.3.9
( 1140-1160; MS: 1140-1160 )  Cez sunt les nuns des terres et des tenures que tu as otreied as moines: [...] Stunteneie od .xxiij. mille d’anguilles que l’uem prent es mareis et as ewes ki agisent a cel maneir  Ely Arch 269.4.41
2 to pertain, be attached to: 
( 1140-1160; MS: 1140-1160 )  E cest est la summe des choses que en cest nostre tens numeement i agisent, seit en teneure seit en custume des leis  Ely Arch 267.2.27

p.pr. as a.

adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring: 
( 1343 )  un mees ové le crouft ajesaunt  Actes privés 212
( 1372 )  l’ewe (=of the River Avon) est estopé, arté, et constreint, qe terres, prees, et pastures adgisantz sont enoundez […]  Rot Parl1 ii 312
( 1421 )  autres contrés et paiis au mesme celui paiis de Flandres adgisans  Rot Parl1 iv 147
( 1428 )  jeo lise […] a chescun curatour de .vij. parochez pluis prochein agisauntis pour faire divine service  Reg Chich ii 382
agisant a
neighbouring to: 
( 1414 )  en les countees de Salop’, Hereeford […] et en autres a mesme la paiis adjesantz  Rot Parl1 iv 52

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See also:

adjacent 
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