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ensealer1 (1174-75)
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ensealer1 (1174-75)

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enceler;  ensaieler,  ensceller,  ensealler,  enseeler,  enseiller,  enseler,  enseller,  ensoialler  (anseler  Grocers 67 ),
(p.p. enceley  YBB Ed II viii 198)  
  FEW:  sigillum 11,596b Gdf:  enseeler 3,229c GdfC: ∅ TL: ensëeler 3,509 DEAF:  seel 2 (enseeler)  DMF:  ensceller  TLF: ∅ OED:  enseal v.  MED:  enselen v.  DMLBS:  insigillare 1403a

v.trans.

1to seal, attach a seal to validate or authenticate a letter or document: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  En romanz devise un brief, d’un anel l’enseele  FANT OUP 245
( 1325 )  fist celui enfaunt taunt come il feust deinz age de duzze aunz enceler cele chartre par engeinment  Rot Parl1 i 435
( MS: 1419 )  et soit ensealé du seal le audermann  Lib Alb 267
♦to seal to confirm standard weight or measure: 
( 1370 )  Et qe nul n’eit forsque une manere de pois, et ceo soit encelez  Goldsmiths 132
( 1381 )  qe un hom soit esluz [...] pur ensealer les draps de la ville et qe un seal pur ceo soit ordinee  Bristol Red Bk ii 9
( 1423 )  faire lour draps de fines laines et les ensceller du seell de la ville  Rot Parl1 iv 251
2 to seal up, attach a seal to prevent access or exit: 
( 1290 )  lur coffres e lur huches ensellerent  Eng Docs 112.215
( 1341 )  et ensealent les hois de lour granges et maisons, q’ils ne poent entrer lour maisons demene  Rot Parl1 ii 129

p.p. as a.

sealed, under seal: 
( 1328 )  par bille ensoiallé del coket de Loundres  TNA SC 8/37/1806
lettre ensealé
lettre
mesure ensealé
mesure1
taille ensealé
taille1

See also:

assealer  desensealé  sealer 
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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