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idoine (1171-74)
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idoine (1171-74)

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ydoine  (aoine)  
  FEW:  idoneus 4,540b Gdf:  idoine 4,539b / aoine 1,305c GdfC: ∅ TL: idoine 4,1278 / aoine 1,409 DEAF:  idoine I22 / aoine I23 DMF:  idoine  TLF:  idoine  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  idoneus 1202a

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1suitable, appropriate: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Ne voleient suffrir li reguler chanoine K’arceveskes n’eveskes oust abit de moine. A moine est, cum a mort, donee neire bruine, Ne lur robe n’est pas a nul prelat aoine  Becket1 569
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  d'ordre e de matrimoine, Direz ceo ke verrez ydoine  Lum Lais ANTS 10682
2competent, qualified: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Lors fist pardevant sei venir Augustin od [...] moines Que a cel oes (=conversion of the Anglo-Saxons) erent idoines  S Greg 1880
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Aristotle le philosophe ydoine  Secr abernun 3

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