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arerer (c.1200)

arerer (c.1200)

arerier;  arierer;  arrerer,  arrierer,  arerir,  arrerir;  ararer;  enrerir  
  FEW:  *ad retro 24,182a Gdf:  arrierer 1,410b GdfC:  arrierer 8,190c TL: arierer 1,530 / arierir 1,530 DEAF: DMF:  arriérer  / arriérir  TLF:  arriérer  OED:  arrear v.  MED:  arreren v.  DMLBS:

v.trans.

1to put back, delay, hold up
( 1297 )  […] l’execucion de noz mandementz […] soit arerié ou empeschié en nule manere  Parl Writs 393
( 1300 )  qe les busoignes qe nous menons ne feussent arrierés  Scot Docs 206
to discomfit, humiliate
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Asez se pena de tant dire Par quei arierer peust seint Pierre  S Clem ANTS 2956
2to hinder, be detrimental to
( 1315 )  sur rien ne lessasse qe par tut mon poer fusse eidant d’arerir vos enemis en les parties d’Irlande  Affairs of Ireland 74
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  toutes les choses qe jeo poai ymaginer a dire qe purroit autri pris abatre et le mien enhaucer […] et tout pur les altres bons arrerir et moi metter avant  Sz Med1 17
3to prevent
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  procuré fauses enquestes par quei dreiture fust arerié  BRITT i 89
( 1323-25 )  s’ils poeissent atteindre a lor purpos, le quel Dieus voille arreriret descrestre  St Sard 154
4to diminish
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  e estre ceo votre gaignage serreit enrery  HENLEY2 330
5finan.to put in arrears
( 1323 )  l’acount ad esté tant delayez et arreri  Red Bk 908

v.intrans.

to diminish
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  De jur en altre acrut l’onur Davi E l’Isboseth descrut e areri  Anc Test (B) 9044

p.pr. as a.

localretiring, standing back
( MS: s.xiii2 )  reculanti: (C) ararand, reculant  TLL ii 67
se tenir arerant
to stand back
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  (at wedding) nul avancer ne se deit, Einz se deit tenir arerant Tant ke l’espus le trai avant  Mirur1 155vb21

p.p. as a.

(=arere? the absence of accents in manuscripts and many editions means that there is endemic confusion between areré p.p. of arerer, and arere adv.)
finan.in arrears
( 1422-23 )  Item pur quitrent a S. Maries Overey par .iij. ans arerez - .xxvj. s.  Mch Tayl Accs1 1 Henry VI

See also:

arere 
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