stranger, one unrelated, mere acquaintance:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Issi pleint l’em les adventiz Plus ke ne fet la mere le fiz
Pet Plet ANTS 1687
♦
foreign(er), alien:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
E joe sui aventiz e d’autre regiun
Horn 2434
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Ne devez pas guerpir tuz vos amis Pur la parole, dit il, d’un aventiz!
Anc Test (B) 13983
(
s.xiii1/3;
MS: s.xivin
)
Ço est orguil des aventiz Ki nus volent chascer del pais
Brut Royal 825
(
s.xiii4/4;
MS: 1307-15
)
l’une
(=part of his revenue) dona il a serganz […], la terce as estranges e as aventiz
Reis Engl1 56
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
Jeo vus pri, fet il, e conjur ausi com aventiz e pellerins
(Latin: tancquam advenas et peregrinos)
Ancren2 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
YBB 21-22 Ed I 501
(
1315
)
il ne deyvent a cesti bref estre resceu […] qe
(=because) il sunt aventifs
YBB 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
YBB 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
Affairs of Ireland 160
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aventif (s.xii1)