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asener (c.1136-37)
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asener (c.1136-37)

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asceiner,  asseiner,  assener;  enseinner,  ensener;  esener,  essener  
  FEW:  sinno- 17,71a Gdf:  assener 1,432b GdfC:  assener 8,210c TL: assener 1,576 DEAF:  sen (assener)  DMF:  assener  TLF:  asséner  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

There is persistent scribal confusion with acener, asener, assigner and enseigner.

v.trans.

1to strike, hit: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Un chevaler en asenad  GAIMAR1 2797
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  adreit mes l’asenad, hurtad al frunt e jesqu’al cervel esfundrad  Liv Reis1 35
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  La pere vole […] Devant le frunt l’asena mult ben  Anc Test (E) 6968
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lançad le gaveloc qu’il tint, Un fust […] cum chey avalaunt De un leu haut assena un prestre  S Fran ANTS 8036
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  failli le felon ribaud d’asener le dure clou  Sz Med1 182
♦to hit, wound: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Vassal, vus estes asené […] De ceste place nen istrez pas, Si dirrez la recreantise  Ipom BFR 9790
2fig.to gain, achieve: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  La devinaille ne sout nul asener  Anc Test (B) 4769
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Et tu, pucele […] quele joie as assenee!  Ross ANTS 56
3to indicate, assign: 
( 1269 )  por celui paiement fere as termes […] le devantdit E. lui eit assené & obligé le devantdit paage en la manere, qe est contenue en la devantdite lettre […]  Foedera1 i 481
♦lawto assign: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Ore avez oi cumment lé .xv. fiz Saphadins sunt en herité ensené  Relatio Tripartita 123
( 1337 )  en bones rentes certeyns et bien assenees enz roialme d’Engleterre  Treaty Rolls ii 10.23

v.intrans.

fig.to succeed: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  A ses homes ewages ad donc comandé Voisent acercher (var. (P: c.1310) Voisent en cercher) (=source of Nile) tant qu’il aient asené  Rom Chev ANTS 6851
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Ne se sout tant pener nature, Ke el furmast tel creature, Par estudie ne par penser, Ke pus i poust asener  Ipom BFR 2278
asener a
to reach: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Caroles faiseient e geus Pur la joie des novels lieus U il esteient assené  Brut WACE 1081
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Tant est par la forest alez A un hermite est assenez  S Gile1 1256
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Qu’il les en doinst al meillor asener  Rom rom 428
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lur chemin virent apertement […]. En cheminaunt Deu loerent E a lur hostel ben assenerent  S Fran ANTS 2386

p.p. as a.

bien asené
fig.well-endowed, provided: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Alme, bien fuissez assenee, Si ceste saintisme pensee T’arosast bien de sa rosee  Ross ANTS 4049

See also:

acener  assainer  assigner  enseigner  rasener  sener1 
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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