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ami1 (1113-19)

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The form amice2 is a cross reference to the following entry:

ami1 (1113-19)

(amize,  amice)  
  FEW:  amicus 24,445b Gdf:  ami 1 1,265b GdfC:  ami 8,105a TL: ami 1,350 DEAF:  ami  DMF:  ami  TLF:  ami  OED:  ami n.  MED:  ami(e n.  DMLBS:  amicus 77b

s.

1friend
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Al busuin est truved L'ami e espruved. Unches ne fud ami Qui al busuign failli Dum il poust aider  Comput ANTS 166 and 167
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Amis, mut bien esta  Horn 2357
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiim )  e serrunt les acuseurs present (=at Judgement Day) e nul ami charnel ne purra sucurre  HALES 217-8
( 1323 )  de nostre messagerie […] a nostre seint piere le Pape et autres noz amis en court  King’s Bench iv 123
2 name (used as a surname)
( 1221 )  Robert Amis  Family Names Ames
( 1279 )  Joan Amice  Family Names Ames
( 1309-10 )  John Amize  Family Names Ames
prochein ami (du sanc)
kinship relative, next of kin
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lur cosins, lur nevuz, lur freres Ne lur altres amis precains  Brut WACE 533
kinshiplawnearest relative of a minor heir in socage who is entitled to wardship of the minor heir
( 1275 )  si l'enfaunt seit aloingné ou destourbé par le gardein [...] par quei il ne puisse s'asise suire, suie por lui un de ses procheins amis  Stats i 38
( 1326-27 )  au prochein ami du saunk  Rot Parl1 ii 10
( 1339 )  ALD. Coment sciet homme de son noun age et q'il soit enloigné en ceo cas? [...] SCH. Unques ne fust uncore vewe qe proscheyn amy fust resceu fors en cas s'assise de novele dissesine  YBB 13-14 Ed III 17
( 1388 )  le garde a luy appartient come prochein amye l'enfaunt [...] et monstra coment prochein amy, scilicet frere la meer la dite Clarez  YBB 12 Rich II 71
estre ami a
to be a friend of, to
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Il apelat un chivaler de pris, B., qui mult li fust amis  Anc Test (B) 12336
amicable towards
( 1391 )  touzjorus creant qu’el (=wife) serra bon ami a mon alme  Test Ebor i 160
faire ami de
euph.to take as a lover
( s.xiiex; MS: 1272-82 )  Mout par fet grant outrage Dame de haut parage, Quant ele ad bon mari, Qui d’autre fest ami  Cor Lai 394

See also:

amie 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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