affliger (s.xii1)
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affliger (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  affligere 24,253b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  afliger 8,41c TL: afligier 1,192 DEAF:  afliger  DMF:  affliger  TLF:  affliger  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  affligere 50a
afflijer  

v.a.

1to afflict, strike with disaster: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Par quantes fiedes le purvuchierent el desert, afflijerent lui en sultiveté (Latin: afflixerunt eum in solitudine)  141.LXXVII.40
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )   1157
2 theol. to mortify, inflict voluntary physical pain to (as a from of penance): 
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) il est sot tout voirement, Quant il son corps par aspreté Du grief penance ad affligé Et s'alme nul merite en prent  1157
afflictiun  afflire 
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