agucement (c.1185)
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agucement (c.1185)

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  FEW:  *acutiare 24,126a Gdf:  aguisement 1,171c GdfC:  aiguisement 8,57b TL: ∅ DEAF:  aguisier (aguisement)  DMF:  aiguisement  TLF:  aiguisement  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
aguisement;  agusement,  agussement,  angusement  

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1(of an edge, point, etc.) sharpness: 
( MS: s.xivex )  passeront par l’agucement d’espye  (L) 44r
♦sharpness, keenness, harshness: 
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Tous ceus (=fishes), con dist Galiens, sunt solubles se il sunt en eiwe salee por l’aguisement du sel  285.S99.7
2pathol.(of an illness, etc.) intensification, build-up: 
( 1266-1300; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  quinces estaingnent seif et l’agusement de roge colre assuagent et vallent contre cardiake et encontre egestion  303.S126.6
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  si cele nue [est] el sumet de l’urine […] donc signefie agussement e asperté de l’infermeté  ii 261
3fig.intensifier, stimulus: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  En une forest sunt entrez, Ki de chans de oiseaus retentist; Ismeine d’amer en fremist, Kar chant d’oisel e estrument Est d’amur un angusement  8908
♦med.pharm.sharpening, fortifying agent: 
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  prenés […] une drame et demie de cartatique emperial, por ce que ele espurge colere, et mellés bien ensemble ces agusemens  332
agu  agucer  aguçon  aguçur 
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