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assaver (1130-40)
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assaver (1130-40)

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assavoir,  assavoire,  assavoyr;  asaver,  asavver,  asaveir,  asaveire,  asavoyr  (assavour  Rot Parl1 v 103)  
  FEW:  sapere 11,194a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  assavoir 8,210a TL: savoir 9,251 DEAF:  savoir (assavoir)  DMF:  assavoir  TLF:  assavoir  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

est assaver que
it is to be noted that: 
( c.1340 )  Item est assavoir que […] il prendra le jour de guages quatre souez  Blk Bk Adm 6
( 1433-34; MS: c.1449 )  Et este assavoir que toutes les choses devant nommés ont esté poisees ou pois de Troye  Bedford Inventories B178
ceo est assaver
to wit, namely, that is: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  melangiron de humur nairis, se est asaveir de colur adustus  A-N Med i 228
( 1283 )  Ceo est asaver del trentyme de lur beens moebles  Parl Writs 12
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Donez li a manger un dener pesant de la semence de kersuns […] ceo fet (l. est?) asaver le premer jur un dener pesant […]  Pop Med 276.72
( 1377 )  Laquele petition fust respondue et endossé en ces paroles, c’est assaver, ‘Le Roy voet […]’  Rot Parl1 iii 8
( 1407-08 ) pur meresme, c'est assavoir platis, postis, somers, braces, gistis [...]  Mch Tayl Accs2 285 (9 Henry IV)
faire assaver (a)
to notify, make known (to): 
( 1130-40; MS: 1440 )  Et co fait asaver se il ne puet estre guaranc as freres del Ospital d'icele que il lur durrat eschange al plus precein de lur almone  Hosp Chart 131
( 1435 )  Pourquoy vous faisons assavoir [...] que, au regard de vostre passage, il n’est ne n’a esté rettardé que par fautte de ce que [...]  Lett Rois 436
( 1502 )  en ceste matiere luy en veullés fere asavoyr tout vostre playsir et voullentee  Lett Rois 521

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saver1 
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