aventif (s.xii1)

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aventif (s.xii1)

[ FEW: 24,194a adventicius; Gdf: 1,120a adventis; GdfC: ; TL: 1,720 aventiz; DEAF: ; DMF:  adventiz; TLF:  adventif; OED:  adventive a. and n.; MED: ; DMLBS: 36b adventivus ]
aventice,  aventis,  aventiz,  aventeiz;  adventif;  enventis; 
pl. adventices  

s.

1stranger, one unrelated, mere acquaintance
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  La vedve e l’aventiz (Latin: advenam) tuerunt  172.XCIII.6
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Issi pleint l’em les adventiz Plus ke ne fet la mere le fiz  1687
foreign(er), alien
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  E joe sui aventiz e d’autre regiun  2434
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ne devez pas guerpir tuz vos amis Pur la parole, dit il, d’un aventiz!  (B) 13983
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Ço est orguil des aventiz Ki nus volent chascer del pais  825
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  l’une (=part of his revenue) dona il a serganz […], la terce as estranges e as aventiz  56
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Jeo vus pri, fet il, e conjur ausi com aventiz e pellerins (Latin: tancquam advenas et peregrinos)  117.14
lawadventive, incomer (one who obtains land by purchase rather than by inheritance)
( 1294 )  Yl purreyt estre ke eus ou lur ancestres furunt adventyz ke chaungerent lur estat, e nent del sank seus ke avaunt tyndrent du roy  21-22 Ed I 501
( 1315 )  il ne deyvent a cesti bref estre resceu […] qe (=because) il sunt aventifs  Ed II xvii 151
( 1329-30 )  uncore put il estre franc si le ceppe de quel il issist feust aventice ou franc avant temps du memoire  3-4 Ed III 707
isolated, not accepted, not recognized
( 1332 )  […] qe vous (=the King) plese comaunder q’ils (=purveyors) soient paiés. Car, sire, s’ils ne eiount vestre ayd et vestre grace a cest foiz, ils sont aventis par touz joures  160
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