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ajustement2 (c.1200)

The form adjoustement is a cross reference to the following entry:

ajustement2 (c.1200)

ajoustement,  adjoustement,  ajostement,  enjustement  
  FEW:  *juxtare 5,98a / *justus 5,89a Gdf:  ajostement 1,206b GdfC: TL: ajostement 1,269 DEAF:  joster (ajostement) J614 / juste 1 (ajustement) J787 DMF:  ajoutement  TLF:  ajoutement  OED:  adjustment n.  MED: DMLBS:

s.

1adjustment, change
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Et se il poent faire auques guaainement, Entr’els le partiront senz autre ajostement  Siege Antioche meyer 14.227
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Deus lur commande qu’il creirent femement Qu’il est sul Deu sanz altre ajustement  Anc Test (B) 2313
( 1367 )  la cedule quele vous avez ensi envoiez [...]. Et endroit del adjoustement quel vous y avez fait faire touchant les subgiz d'une coustee et d'autre [...]  Engl Dip Pract  732
2addition (especially to a law)
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Kar ore pert, ceo semble, sanz repit Coment cest livre ad dreit profit Par creance od l'enjustement De esperance e charité ensement  Secr abernun 2374
( 1364-65 )  si nuls (=laws, etc.) soient qe busoignent declaration, ajoustement ou artement […]  Rot Parl1 ii 283
( 1363-75; MS: 1419 )  sauncz lez corrigementz et adjoustementz de nous et de nostre Counseille  Lib Alb 368
addition, inclusion (as part of a deal)
( 1376 )  si vous ent deuvez treter, il covient ensi aviser ce (=qe) l’adjoustement ne se face de Burdeux, Bayonne […] ne d’autre lieu notable qe purra estre grandement anuysant  Bruges 78.21

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ajustement1 
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