avogler :: Anglo-Norman Dictionary

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 ♦ to blind, dazzle ♦ (of emotions, etc.) to blind, mislead ♦ to blind, deceive, dupe 2to blind, make (the eyes) water 3to darken, make dark, black out
v.intrans.to grow blind, lose one's eyesight
v.refl.to blind, deceive oneself
p.p. as s.blind person

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.xiv^1/4 ) avoglez sunt les uns, les autres decolez LANGTOFT wright i 372

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) ceculto: enwgler evwgler, envugler? TLL ii 161

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^m ) 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.xii^ex; MS: s.xiv² ) Amur meint home eveuglyst Amis 766 (var. C58)

( s.xiiiⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) 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.xiii^m ) 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.xiii^4/4 ) Ke dons envuglent les oils de gent S Rich ANTS 634

( s.xiii^ex; 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.xiv^m ) […] 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.xiv^m ) (garlic) nette les reyns e enveogle les eols BOZ Cont 104

3fig.meteo.to darken, make dark, black out:

( s.xii^3/4; 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.xii^2/4; 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.xii^2/4; MS: s.xiii^2/4 ) Pechiez fait home trebuchier E avogler e desveier Conception wace 1082

( c.1334; MS: s.xiv^m ) [Ysaac] comensa d’enveugler TREVET Cron¹ 17.11

v.refl.

fig.to blind, deceive oneself:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) sememes (=‘he himself’) s’en avogle Ancren² 44.1

p.p. as s.

blind person:

( s.xii^3/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) Nuls hom ne veit par la cité Ne veie u manc u avoglé S Gile¹ 498

( s.xii^ex; MS: c.1200 ) li laere l’encontrat, li surt, li avoglé (rhymes with 'santé') GUISCH 1693

( MS: s.xiii^m ) les surz orront, verrunt les avoeglés (rhymes with 'santé') Antecrist 102

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