1phil.to discuss, dispute, argue dialectally:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
furent desputanz E de raisuns argumentanz
1096
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
L’autre est dialetike, qui fait argumenter
2832
♦
to reason, cogitate, form a thought:
(
1260-70;
MS: s.xiv1
)
(The usurer, on waking from a dream) En sei est dunc returné, E sagement ad argumenté
(var.B) 4906
♦
phil.to discuss, form an opinion:
(
MS: s.xiv3/3
)
en la senestre paume a femme est bon a argumenter
57.40 (var. D)
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.