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apoverir (1121-35)
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apoverir (1121-35)

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apovrir,  appoverer  
  FEW:  pauper 8,58b Gdf:  apovrier 1,352b GdfC:  apovrir 8,153b TL: apovrir 1,466 / apovriier 1,466 DEAF:  povre (apovrir)  DMF:  appauvrir  / appauvrier  TLF:  appauvrir  OED:  apoor v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

statusto impoverish, make poor: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Deus avance seinte largesce E apoverist male destresce  Mirur1 133ra12
( MS: s.xiii2 )  aporio, as id est quod fierie pauper .i. divitiis deficere, quod gallice dicitur apoveri  TLL i 297

v.intrans.

statusto impoverish, become poor: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Tost le fait painquerant. Ne li est pas ami Puis qu’il ad apoveri  Best ants 1014

p.p. as a.

statusimpoverished, fallen into poverty: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  E des qu jo, las, apovri, [...] parens perdi [...]  Brut WACE 1933
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  li dus a lor terre en Bretaingne saissie, lez chasteaux abatuz et la terre apovrie  Rom de Rou wace i 60.1334

p.p. as s.

statusimpoverished person, one who has fallen into poverty: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  E les apoveriz pas ne curent  Mirur1 164ra40

See also:

empoverir  espoverir  poveri  povre1 
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