avantmettre (s.xiii)
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avantmettre (s.xiii)

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  FEW:  mittere *6/ii,191a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  metre 2 (avantmetre)  DMF:  avant-mettre  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  antemittere 93b
avantmetre,  avauntmetre  

v.a.

1to put forward: 
( 1310 )  solonc le purport de l’escript qe vous avez avantmys  Ed II ii 185
♦to expound, explain: 
( MS: s.xiii )  exponendo: avaunt metant  i 131-2
2to prefer, set above: 
( MS: s.xivm )  ceo (=widow’s mite) est avaunt mis devaunt les richesces  5ra

p.p._as_a.

1aforementioned: 
( 1347 )  […] si qe poi en eide des custages avantmises fut levé  ii 166
avant#1  mettre 
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