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atiffer (s.xii3/4)
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The form athipher is a cross reference to the following entry:

atiffer (s.xii3/4)

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atifer,  athipher  
  FEW:  *tipfôn 17,332a Gdf:  atufier 1,492a GdfC:  atifer 8,229a TL: atifer 1,640 DEAF:  tifer (atifer)  DMF:  attifer  TLF:  attifer  OED:  atiffe v.  MED:  atiffen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to adorn, beautify: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Pur pleisir as oianz l’ay (=my narrative) un poy atiffé  Rom Chev ANTS 6647

v.refl.

cosmet.jewel.costumeto bedeck, adorn oneself (with ornaments, jewellery, clothes, etc.): 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) Les puceles [...] Mut cointement tost se atifferent  Josaphaz2 1803
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Mult se atiffent la les femmes De or e de argent  S Clem ANTS 9213
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Li mirurs est pur enseigner Cument hum se deit atiffer  Mirur2 166

p.p. as a.

1cosmet.jewel.costumeadorned, attired, decked out (with ornaments, jewellery, clothes, etc.): 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Unques puis ne vie nul ensi atiffez  Rom Chev ANTS 3876
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Ne tienent pleit de estre vestues, Ne que seient atiffees Sulung le us de autres cuntrees  S Clem ANTS 9173
( MS: s.xiii2 )  cultas: atyffés  TLL ii 7
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Jerusalem […] atyffee Cum espuse de sun barun aurnee  Apoc giffard 3938
( MS: s.xiv )  cho[o]rnata: athiphés  TLL ii 58
2lang.ornate, embellished with flowery language or rhetoric: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Diseit ses enveisures e ses gas atiffez  Rom Chev ANTS 770
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Parole atiffé et feitiz, En confessiun, ad le deable apris  Man pechez 10239
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