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comparer1 (s.xii1)

comparer1 (s.xii1)

comparir,  comparrer,  comperer,  comperire;  conparer;  cumparer;  cunparer,  cunperer  
  FEW:  comparare 2 2/ii,970a Gdf:  comparer 2,203c GdfC:  comparer 9,137c TL: comparer 1  DEAF:  comparer 1  DMF:  comparer 1  TLF:  comparer  OED:  compare v.1  MED:  comparen v.  DMLBS:  comparare 1 403a

v.trans.

to compare
( c.1241; MS: s.xiii2 )  vos porrez saver, par comparer les acuntes as aesmes  HENLEY2 394
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  comparer l’un od l’aultre, et fere collation ensemble  Secr anon 17
estre comparé a
to resemble, be like
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) li huem [...] cumparez est as jumenz nunsavanz  Oxf Ps ANTS 70.48.12
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Por ceu que bien fu herbergiee Et bien et bel edefiee [...] fu la cité Lune apelee Et a lune fu comparée  Rom de Rou wace ii 323.484
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  As fols jumenz est cumparez  Mirur3 6763

v.intrans.

to be compared
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  As baruns de la vile ne pot nul cumparer  FANT OUP 907

v.refl.

to compare oneself
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  as queles li seint prophete se comp[e]re (var. (BN: s.xivin) compare) en le sauter  Ancren2 215.16

p.p. as a.

comparable, similar
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  E vostre noun fu bien doné, A pere pretiouse comparé  boz Three Saints 32.76
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