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apriendre (1121-25)
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apriendre (1121-25)

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apreindre; 
ind.pr.6 apriement,  apriment; 
pret.6 aprenstrent; 
fut.3 apriendrat; 
p.p. aprient  
  FEW:  opprimere 7,376b Gdf:  apreindre 1,354a GdfC: ∅ TL: apriendre 1,475 DEAF:  priendre (apriendre)  DMF:  appreindre  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  exprimere 862b / imprimere 1269a

v.trans.

1to press, push down: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Les oreilles que il (=asp) ad tresben estuperat, L’un a terre apreinderat, En le altre mucerat Sa cue  Best ants 1625
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Les ordes mains al piz li sient E les eskerdus braz l’apriment  S Edw barking 2382
2to oppress, subdue: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  li tuen espoentement aprenstrent (Latin: oppresserunt) mei  Camb Ps 160.LXXXVII.16
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Se il nen ont de seignor crieme, Qui les destreigne e aprieme, Tost en avra malvais servise  Rom de Rou wace ii 225.9120
♦to repress, restrain: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiii1 )  lur grant sei mult en apriement  S Brend (D) 654

v.refl.

to withdraw, hide: 
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Ire s’en vait et pais revint. Hait se mustre, trisur s’aprient  S Edw barking 722

p.p. as a.

oppressed, subdued: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  Pur quei [...] li mal (=the evil) sunt suffraitus, enferm e aprient  Eluc 52.12

p.p. as s.

one who is oppressed, subdued: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Que juges le orphenin e l’aprient (Latin: pupillum et oppressum)  Camb Ps 15.IX.39

See also:

apriendre  espriendre  priendre 
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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