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[conoissour] (1305)
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[conoissour] (1305)

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conissour,  coniser,  conisor,  conisour,  conisur,  conissur,  conusor,  conusour,  conussour  
  FEW:  cognoscere 2/i,845b Gdf:  conoisseor 2,244c GdfC:  connoisseor 9,160c TL: conoissëor 2,705 DEAF:  conoistre (conoisseor)  DMF:  connaisseur  TLF:  connaisseur  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1one who knows (about): 
( MS: s.xivm )  Sophonias ly gardour et conissour de les privetees de nostre sire  S Jer 3vb
( MS: s.xiv2 )  Dieu pardurable, qe de choses es conissour (Latin: cognitor) (var. (B: s.xiv2) de choses privees es conussour)  Bible hackett 289va
2lawrecognitor, member of a jury impanelled on an assize: 
( 1330 )  n’oseyent ileoqes venir de chalenger lur conusors  Rot Parl2 204
3lawperson who admits a debt: 
( 1317 )  Reconissaunce de dette ou les terrez le conissur qe furent alienez pur la conissaunsce furent lyverez […]  YBB Ed II xxi 12
( 1344 )  En un statut marchaunt le conisour fist sa suggestion en la Chauncellerie q’il avoit payé les deniers  YBB 18 Ed III 419
♦lawcognizor (one who accepts responsibility for a fine): 
( 1305 )  Est l’atorné le conisour la en curt?  YBB 32-33 Ed I 437
( 1308-09 )  le heir le conisour […] serra chacé a prendre sa party de la fyn  YBB Ed II i 54
( 1310 )  Un fyn se leva en temps le Roi H. […]. Ore vient le heir le conisour et suyist de faire venir le traunscript del piee  YBB Ed II iii 39

See also:

reconisour 
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