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araciner1 (s.xiiiin)
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araciner1 (s.xiiiin)

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arasciner;  enraciner  
  FEW:  radicina 10,20b Gdf:  araciner 1,370b GdfC:  enraciner 9,474c TL: araciner 1,488 / enraciner 3,489 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  araciner  / enraciner  TLF:  enraciner  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.intrans.

fig.bot.to take root: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  li plançun de l'arbre de vie enfundra e sei enclost el tendre terrail de sun quor pur bien enraciner el ferm fundement de sa creance  Joshua Sermons ii 30.25

v.refl.

pathol.med.to take root: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  dunc fait a criendre que la festre se soit araciné as racines de[s] dens  A-N Med i 59

p.p. as a.

also_fig.bot.rooted, established: 
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  le bastun […] fu si afermez Cum si il fust al marbre del tut araciné  Reis Engl1 150
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiiex )  en tele manere Esteit herbergé la tere E de chastels e de cités, De dunguns e de fermetés, Ke ben est[eient] aracinez Les gentils vassals  Dermot2 3204
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  le vostre plantee serra aprés ycestes deaux ans issint enracyné qe […]  SAMPS1 374
♦also_fig.rooted, embedded: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Trestotes les males asises Qui eroient ja es eglises Par tot lu mond enracinés  S Greg 1283
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  tuz les comaundemenz Deu […] sunt enracinez en cest amur  Ancren2 140.16
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Pur felun araciné en home: Pernez […]  Med Recs 209.47
♦fig. attached to, steeped in: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  il (=the wicked) furent aracinez a mal  Set Dorm ANTS 667
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  (The prior) Jolif esteit & mult volage En dit, en fet & en utrage, Mult fu enraciné al mal  Mir N-D 116.11

See also:

raciner 
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