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change (1155)

cange;  chaunge  (chaunche  TLL ii 132 gange  TLL ii 132)  
  FEW:  cambiare *2/i,120a Gdf:  change 2,54b GdfC:  change 9,37c TL: change 2,218 DEAF:  changier  DMF:  change  TLF:  changer  OED:  change n.  MED:  chaunge n.  DMLBS:  cambium 248a

s.

1change, alteration
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  en lur quer desirent Noveautez e changes dont sey memes enpirent  Rom Chev ANTS 8042
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  E pur ceo dure ele tut dis, e est sanz change  Ancren2 164.4
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  (the man being tortured) entre les chaunges des turmentz rendi l’espirit  TREVET Cron1 150.1
( 1425 )  saunz chaunge ou novell addicion  Readings i 25
transformation
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Cest miracle n’est pas estrange; Suvent sout Deus faire tel change  S Jean ANTS 1092
change, replacement
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Par remuemenz e par changes Des languages as gens estranges, Ki la terre unt sovent conquise [...] Sunt li nun des viles changied  Brut WACE 3775
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Se bon seignor perdismes bon l’avon recovré, De change sommes nous a mellor recouvré  Rom de Rou wace i 102.2626
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  De la change de la moneye  LANGTOFT thiol2 234.100r
exchange
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  Reis, je vus durai ma sorur pur Ysolt ki aim par amur; fesum bargaine, fesum change!  Fol Trist ANTS 289
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  Qant oy les paroles de cel dolorouse change, q’en leu mon tres douz fitz Dieux et homme, prendroy Johan le fitz Zebedeu […]  Passion BVM2 104.9
2finan.exchange of money
( 1343-50 )  touz les orfeveres de Loundres e touz ceux de la Change e moutz des bones gentz de la vile furent pris pur l’achat de plates e pur la chaunge de grosse moneye pur menue  Cron Lond1 15
finan.toponymExchange, Mint
( 1279-80 )  Ke nul hom [ne] chaunge la moneye […] fors al Chaunge le Roy  Red Bk 982
( 1300 )  qe ceux qe unt tieles moneies e les voelent chaunger voisent a nostre Chaunge de la Tour de Loundres  Lib Cust 190
titlestatusoffice of King’s Exchanger
( 1394-96 )  Item, paié a George Cressy et Remund Standelf pur pursuite al tresourer pur le chaunge – xxvj s. viij d.  Goldsmiths 246
money-changer’s table, shop
( MS: s.xiii )  trapetam: (L) change (var. (C: s.xiiiex) une plaunche )  TLL ii 132.36
3finan.curr.rate of exchange
( 1343-50 )  Cele an fut li chaunge levé de la novele moneye esterling  Cron Lond1 17.1
4changeableness, fickleness
( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii1 )  Bele, a vos me plain Del change e de la trischerie  Trist thomas2 972
5 name (used as a surname)
( 1207 )  Robert del Change  Family Names Change
( 1327 )  John del Chaunge  Family Names Change
lettre de change
finan.bill of exchange
( 1430 )  .iij. letrez de change, come il apiert par .j. bille endenté  Port Bk studer 116
mestre de la change
mestre1
cure a(l) change
ven.to chase a different quarry
( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii1 )  Dote que curruz ait al change  Trist thomas2 1106
change de pensé
pensé1

See also:

changable  changablement  changableté  changement  changer  changeresse  changeur  changeure  changing  rechange  rechangement  rechanger 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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