comencement (1113-19)
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comencement (1113-19)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,943b cominitiare; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,132a commencement; TL: 2,603 comencement; DEAF:  comencier (comencement); DMF:  commencement; TLF:  commencement; OED:  commencement n.; MED:  commencement n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
comensement,  comenssement,  commencement,  commenchement;  cumencement,  cummencement,  commancement,  comoincement  i 167  

s.

1beginning: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Le premerain (month of the year) numerent Janum e apelerent De l'an cume[n]cement  653
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 ) coral [...]; ele osted fantosme et ele dunet bon cumencement et bone fin  103.XVII.9
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Cument Deu est sanz comencement e sanz fin  4.46
( s.xiiiex; MS: c.1300? )  Cumencement de geste fort est a truver  1
( 1415-22 )  s'ilz ne viennent aux vespres devant le commancement, ils n'entreront point en leurs estalles  84
♦beginning, onset: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Cumencement de sapience la crieme de nostre Segnor (Latin: Initium sapientiae timor Domini)  111.110.9
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Resteez […] forment au comencement des pecchiez  85.21
♦acad.ceremony of conferment of full degree of Master or Doctor: 
( 1427-28; MS: s.xv )  Le fest de la comensement M’ Robert Nevill Episcopi Salisberiensis  247a
a, al, el comencement
1first, in the beginning: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) El cumencement tu, Sire, la terre fundas  103.101.26
( MS: s.xii2 )  Pur la gute chaive al cumencement quant primes li vient [...]  65.3
( 1278-79 )  a commencement de quinz jurs devant la feste  127
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  aucuns (=gifts) sount el comencement febles  i 226
♦in the first place: 
( 1310 )  A comencement […] vous estes par noun covenable consail et malvais issint menee […]  168
( MS: s.xiiim )  Au commencement vouz devet prier a Dieu tutpuissaunt que il [...]  297
al prime comencement
prime#1
en primer comencement
1at the beginning: 
( 1417-18 )  un libre de velom contenant iiijC foilles saunz lez custodyes (=guardleaves), c’est assavoir iiij en primer comencement et iiij en le fyn  382
del, pus le comencement de mund
mund#1
prendre comencement de (+inf.)
1to begin to, initiate: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Neporquant auncienement entre gent a pé estoient une gent ke estoient apelez ‘de leger armeure’ [...] e par ceus pernoient comencement de combatre  24.6-7
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