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avogler (1120-40)

The form avegler is a cross reference to the following entry:

avogler (1120-40)

avegler,  aveogler,  aveugler,  avoegler,  avoglir,  avugler,  avuler,  avulgler;  awegler,  awogler;  enveegler,  enveglir,  enveoglir,  enveugler,  envoglir;  esvegler,  esveogler,  esvoegler,  esvoeglir,  esvugler,  eswegler;  evugler,  evuglir,  evwgler; 
(p.p.pl. enveigleys  Mar Diable 90 ),
(ind.pr.3 enveglith  Mar Diable 261)  
  FEW:  ab oculis 24,36a Gdf:  envoglir 3,319b GdfC:  aveugler 8,256b TL: avogler 1,751 DEAF:  avugle (avogler)  / avugle (avoglir)  DMF:  aveugler  TLF:  aveugler  OED:  aveugle v.  MED: DMLBS:

v.trans.

1to blind, put the eyes out
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Tu seule m'as tot avuglé  S Marg wace 417 (A)
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  avoglez sunt les uns, les autres decolez  LANGTOFT wright i 372
( MS: s.xiiiex )  ceculto: enwgler evwgler, envugler?  TLL ii 161
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  lui ourse si est enveogli par tant qe basyn ardaunt luy est mys devaunt les eols  BOZ Cont 127
to blind, dazzle
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  (a light from heaven) tant par les ot li esparz Estourdies e avoeglees Qe […]  Dial Greg SATF 15695
fig.emotion(of emotions, etc.) to blind, mislead
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Amur meint home eveuglyst  Amis 766 (var. C58)
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  ne regardez mie Ke plusurs avoegle en cest[e] vie, Ceo sunt les terres e les tresors  Pet Plet ANTS 1444
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  L’amour de l’avoir les enveglith  Mar Diable 261
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Avarice avuegle la gent  Lum Lais ANTS 3633
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ke dons envuglent les oils de gent  S Rich ANTS 634
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  ire tant cum ele dure avogle si le quer de homme ke […]  Ancren2 217.10
fig.to blind, deceive, dupe
( MS: 1120-40 ) A! las, pecables, cum par fui avoglet!  S Alexis1 394
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Oiez, seignurs, un jugement, Dunt mult sunt aveoglé la gent  Mir N-D 195.12
( 1310 )  Et vous dy q’il ne vous ount me (=mais) qe envesgli par lour reson (var. q’il vous ne ount mes enveuglie)  YBB Ed II iv 128
( c.1335; MS: s.xivm )  […] pur esvoegler le commun poeple  Anon Chr2 90
( 1341-42 )  Averement general n’averez pas, qar issi serra pais (=jury) avoeglé  YBB 16 ii Ed III 345
2pathol.med.to blind, make (the eyes) water
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  (garlic) nette les reyns e enveogle les eols  BOZ Cont 104
3fig.meteo.to darken, make dark, black out
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Unes neires nues […] Avougly (var. (P: c.1310) Anubli) les regnés sur eaux [e] environ Qe nul ne pot veer fors flambe de charbon  Rom Chev ANTS 5788

v.intrans.

to grow blind, lose one's eyesight
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  ki s’en lavereit (=water in which the stone medus has been steeped), avoglereit; ki la beust, vomireit sun pulmun  Lapid 106.XXVIII.11
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Pechiez fait home trebuchier E avogler e desveier  Conception wace 1082
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  [Ysaac] comensa d’enveugler  TREVET Cron1 17.11

v.refl.

fig.to blind, deceive oneself
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  sememes (=‘he himself’) s’en avogle  Ancren2 44.1

p.p. as s.

blind person
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Nuls hom ne veit par la cité Ne veie u manc u avoglé  S Gile1 498
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  li laere l’encontrat, li surt, li avoglé (rhymes with 'santé')  GUISCH 1693
( MS: s.xiiim )  les surz orront, verrunt les avoeglés (rhymes with 'santé')  Antecrist 102

See also:

avogle 
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