aloper (1278)

aloper (1278)

  FEW:  lôpen *16,480b Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  aloper  DMF:  aloper  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  alopare 69b
alloper,  alaper  31  

v.a.

1to steal, run off with
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  La pie seit muscer Kant ke peut aloper En un privé lu  224.68
2lawto abduct (a person)
( 1278 )  come Johanne de B., par F. de S. […] feust allopee  i 1
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ceux qi robbent […] ou allopent noneins  28
3occupationto entice (a person) from one employment to another
( 1370 )  Item qe nul ne fortreisast ne alopast autri apprentiz, sergant ne lowys qe del mester fust  128

v.n.

1to run away
( 1312; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ma bele file Douce Pieté Hors de tere est alopé; Ne sai ou est  668
lawto elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover
( 1337 )  En bref de dower pledé fut q’il (=ele) alopa de soun baroun en tiel ville en tiel counté, nient recounseil (l. recounseilé) en la vie soun baroun  11-12 Ed III 287

v.refl.

1lawto elope, run away from one’s husband with a lover
( 1309 )  el se alopa de son baroun et demorra ové son avouter  Ed II ii 145

inf._as_s.

1law elopement of a married woman
( 1345 )  Dowere, ou aloper fuit pledé en barre saunz estre recounseillé  19 Ed III 139

p.p._as_s.

1laweloper, woman who has run away from her husband with a lover
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Mes pur aquere le quer de cele alopé, Par sey vout dereygnyr sun dreit en li clamé  507 (VI)
alopement  alopour  esloper 
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