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FEW: combattuere 2/ii,936a Gdf: combatant 2,186b GdfC: combattant 9,128c / combattre 9,128c TL: combatre 2,584 DEAF: combatre DMF: combattre TLF: combattant / combattre OED: combat v. / combatant a. and n. MED: combatant a. DMLBS: ∅

combater, combatir, combattre; conbatre; cumbastre, cumbater, cumbatre, cumbattre; cunbatre, cumbatree 30v,
pr.p.pl. combatams

v.a.1to attack
v.n.1to fight
v.refl.1to fight one another ♦ (of winds) to clash, pound into one another
p.pr._as_a.1aggressive, hostile 2combative, brave
p.pr._as_s.1soldier, fighter
p.p._as_a.1attacked, besieged
inf._as_s.1fight

v.a.

1mil.to attack:

( 1310-20 ) Coment Philistiens combatirent Jerusalem 66v

v.n.

1to fight:

( 1113-19; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) E, Deus! cum cumbatrat Qui ses armes nen ad? 71

( 1192-93; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) si li Engleis seit feble, met autre en sun liu, ke il conbate pur lui 6.1

(TBD) Dont le malade se lieve en dormant e prent armes e combat e se demaine en dormant com home devez i 141.22

( s.xiv¹; MS: s.xiv^m ) s’il veignent a combater, les pernez vifs 253ra

combatre a, encontre, od, ové

1 to fight against:

( c.1300?; MS: s.xiv^m ) La rue est bone acontre touz venyms, car çoe mustre le mustele, car ele se deit combatre encontre le scorpion 825

( s.xiii¹; MS: s.xiii^m ) Mes quant Antecrist vendrat, nus =Enoch and Elias cumbatrum encontre lui, e serrum occis en Jerusalem 20r

( a.1382; MS: a.1382 ) ne osaunt od lui combatir 3.15

( MS: s.xv ) La rue vauzt encountre touz venims; la moustele quant ele se combata a le scorpioun en meinje 91.S64

( MS: s.xv ) rue mult vaut encountre venym; qar ceie beste quaunt ele veut combatre ové cruele serpente, dount va ele a cele herbe e maunge de çoe eins qe ele combate ové la serpente 174.E662

v.refl.

1to fight one another:

( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii ) Tant dura la bataille et tant se combatirent Que la nuit vint oscure i 47.947

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^m ) Tant se sunt cumbati ke pres est esvespret 4780

( MS: c.1300 ) Al utime jur se cumbaterunt les peres entre sei 30r

♦meteo.(of winds) to clash, pound into one another:

( s.xii^1/3; MS: s.xiii² ) Iceste neist al firmament La u se cumbatent li vent. 218.424

se combatre a, (en)contre

1 to fight with, against:

( 1113-19; MS: s.xiiiⁱⁿ ) Forment se cumbati Cuntre (ms. Encuntre) nostre enemi. 827

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) llluec unt udlages trovez Ki forment les unt desturbez, Kar encontr'els se combatirent 715

( s.xii^3/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) Mult me sui a lui combatu 999

( s.xiii¹; MS: s.xiii^m ) Satan to Hell: 'Se tu oses, cumbat tei contre le Rei de glorie!' 18v

p.pr._as_a.

1aggressive, hostile:

( 1113-19; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) (the scorpion:) Ceo est beste puignante, Hardi e combatante 1722

( s.xii¹; MS: 1155-60 ) Je paisiblement parlowe, e il cumbatantes choses (Latin: bellantia) 234.CXIX.6

2combative, brave:

( 1113-19; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) (Mars:) Chevalers fud vallanz, Hardiz e cumbatanz 452

( c.1185 ) Mult le vit bel e gent e grant, Airus e ben cumbatant 4702

( s.xiiiⁱⁿ; MS: c.1300 ) bon chevaler, pruz e combataunt 14

( MS: c.1320-40 ) Quy grosse voiz ad e bien sonaunte, combatauntz e bien parlantz ert 93r

p.pr._as_s.

1mil.soldier, fighter:

( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii ) De l’autre part Alain Fergant E Naimmeri le combatant ii 169.7658

( s.xii^ex; MS: s.xiii^3/3? ) Mes cumbatu sui al meillur cumbatant 541

( 1355-64; MS: s.xiv^ex ) .iij. mile combatauntz firent un armé en Engleter 178

( 1396 ) seront tenuz les conservateurs de la partie de ceulx qui auront prins la dicte fortresse a lui aidier de cinquante combatams 568

p.p._as_a.

1also_fig.mil.attacked, besieged:

( c.1300; MS: s.xiv^2/4 ) Le coer par ire combati Taun que le coprs feust anyenti [...] Si comensa a reposer 123

inf._as_s.

1fight:

( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Encuntre un de eus il en unt katre, N’est pas ouwel itel cumbatre 296

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