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congeier (1150-70)
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congeier (1150-70)

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congeer,  conger,  congoier;  coungeier,  counger;  cungeer,  cungeier,  cunger  
  FEW:  commeatus 2/ii,947a Gdf:  congeer 2,237c GdfC: ∅ TL: congeer 2,688 DEAF:  congié (congeer)  DMF:  congéer  TLF: ∅ OED:  congee v.  MED:  congeien v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1eccl.to license: 
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  en cas que jeo serreie congé bachiler en leis  SAMPS1 375
( 1373 )  H.B. […] est congiez et licenciez de son provinçal […] pour demourrer […] deinz nostre dite chapelle  GAUNT1 i 129
♦to permit: 
( 1317 )  il mesmes nus ad coungé par son fet de couper en bois  YBB Ed II xxi 116
2dismiss, send away: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E Samuel a itant les cungead, puis chascuns al suen turnad  Liv Reis1 17
♦to banish: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Aprés s’en turna Horn […] Quant li reis Hunlaf l’out cungeié par mal  Horn 1981
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Vilment ai esté congeiez, En altres terres eseilliez  Trist thomas2 2500
♦to dismiss, remove from office: 
( c.1295-98 )  s’il est cupable, qe il soit par le senescal congee  Westm Wenlok 242
congeier de
to banish from: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Ewart Goigne mult dota, De sa terre le congea  Rom de Rou wace ii 88.5428
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