conchier (s.xii1)
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conchier (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  concacare 2/ii,998a Gdf:  conchier 2,218b GdfC: ∅ TL: conchiier 2,652 DEAF:  conchiier  DMF:  conchier 1  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
chunchier,  counchier,  cunchier  

v.a.

1to defecate upon: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Come estoit baptizé […] conchia le seint fonz  244.23
( MS: s.xivin )  gratez le cul au vileyn e il vis counchiera la mayn  10.n29
♦also_fig.to sully, contaminate: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  E conchiee (Latin: coinquinati) sunt en lur ovres  198.CV.38
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Fai moi, biaus sire, delivrer, Que tostans te puisse aourer Que ma foi ne soit enpirie Ne la moie ame conchiie  11.116 (A)
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  Cil qui tochet la peiz, si en est chunchiez  43.189
♦to make filthy: 
( c.1165; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Petite merde cunchie blanche breie  7.105

p.p._as_a.

1also_fig.dirty, soiled: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  ai la buche cuntredite E cunchié, […] Od la quele jo reniai Vostre (=B.V.M.’s) fiz  183.684
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Ki en longaigne chiet conchietz s’en lieve  30
aconchié 
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