comparer1 (s.xii1)
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comparer1 (s.xii1)

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

v.a.

1to compare: 
( c.1241; MS: s.xiii2 )  vos porrez saver, par comparer les acuntes as aesmes  394
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  comparer l’un od l’aultre, et fere collation ensemble  17
estre comparé a
1to resemble, be like: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) li huem [...] cumparez est as jumenz nunsavanz  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  ii 323.484
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  As fols jumenz est cumparez  6763

v.n.

1to be compared: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  As baruns de la vile ne pot nul cumparer  907

v.refl.

1to compare oneself: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  as queles li seint prophete se comp[e]re (var. (BN: s.xivin) compare) en le sauter  215.16

p.p._as_a.

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