1to press hard, compel:
(
1190-1210;
MS: c.1300
)
danz Frode e danz Guimond, Od les baruns qui remis sont, Lur enemis puis apreisserent E itant bel a euls parlèrent
Que trives d’un an lur grantermt
869
2to beset, assail:
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Altre peril les apresset
(var. (D: s.xiii1) mult les apresent)
1002
(
MS: s.xii4/4
) ‘O Deus,’ dist il, ‘si grant pechié m’apresse; Se or ne m’en fui, or criem que tei en perde’
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