comandement (s.xii1/3)
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comandement (s.xii1/3)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,948b commendare; Gdf: 2,191a commandement; GdfC: 9,130c commandement; TL: 2,577 comandement; DEAF:  comander (comandement); DMF:  commandement; TLF:  commandement; OED:  commandment n.; MED:  commaundement n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
comaundement;  commandement,  commandment,  commaundement;  cumandement,  cumaundement,  cummandement;  comaindement,  comondement,  commendement  43,  conmandement  621, 
pl. conmandemenz  571  

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1command, order: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Si tost cum il le numera Devant lui lues s’aparira E ses cumandemenz fera  227.703
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  l'abes [...] Voa a Deu mut bonement Qu’il fera son comandement  150
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  L’enfant respunt ke bonement Frad le suen comaindement  238
♦ mil. command, military orders: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  li dus [...] barons e riches vavasors Fist a Chaem trestoz venir Por son comandement oir  ii 85.5350
♦Bibl.theol.commandment: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) je sui establit reis de lui sur Syon, sun saint munt, preechanz sun cumandement  43.2.6
( s.xiii1/3; MS: c.1255 )  Les dis comandemenz  (P) 358
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Dampnedeu diz comandemenz en la lei commanda  227.2
2act of commanding, authorizing: 
( 1275; MS: c.1282 )  si un homme seit apelé de l’envey ou del comandement ou del recettement aprés le fet  (C) 13
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Appelent sir E. del comaundement De la robberye  ii 200
3authority, power: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ki regne poet aveir e tiel cummandement, Çoe m’est vis, ki çoe lait, qu’il le fait folement  3676
a sun (etc.) comandement
1at his disposal: 
( c.1185 )  Cil chevaler qui sul i pent Ot tut a sun cummandement E mei e trestute ma terre  4898
aver en comandement
1to have orders: 
( 1339 )  il avoit en comandement de lever mesme les .x. sous  12-13 Ed III 325
estre a sun (etc.) comandement
1to be at one’s service: 
( 1396; MS: c.1412 )  je sui tousjours a vostre gentil comandement  152.64
faire sun (etc.) comandement de
1to do one’s will with: 
( 1347 )  au temps que Dieu fra son comaundement de moy  i 45
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