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clouficher (s.xii3/4)

clouficher (s.xii3/4)

cloufichier;  cloueficher,  clousficher;  clofichier  
  FEW:  clavo figere 2/i,768a Gdf:  clofichier 2,157c GdfC: TL: clofichier 2,493 DEAF:  clofire (clofichier)  DMF:  cloficher  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

v.trans.

to nail
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  plates d’or furent cloufichied desure  124
( MS: 1272-82 )  houme peccheour [...] Pur qui soffrites [...] Vos seintes mains e vos pez en croiz estendre e clouficher  5
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Les meins Dampnedeu furunt clousfichees sour la croiz  214.1
to crucify
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  (St. Bernard upon seeing JC on the cross:) 'Alas! Cum clousfichez estes e turmentez tresanguissusement'  138.105
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  deus hommes crucefiez e cloufichez  116.14

p.p. as a.

nailed
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E drescent chastels, bretaskes ont levees, E font i barbecans e barres cloufichees  2873
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