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consence (1150-70)

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The form conscience2 is a cross reference to the following entry:

consence (1150-70)

concense,  consaence,  consense,  conscience,  consience;  cunsence,  cunsense,  cunscience  (concient  BOZ Char 460 var)  
  FEW:  consentire 2/ii,1061b Gdf:  consence 2,251b GdfC: TL: consence 2,731 DEAF:  consentir (consense)  DMF: TLF: OED:  consense n.1  MED:  consence n.  DMLBS:  consentia 448a

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1consent
( 1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  E de moy avez la cunscience, E voil ke seit  S Thom beneit1 767
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Od els consentent les homes a pecchier E por consence en receivent loiier  Rom rom 963
agreement
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Uncore i ad la terce manere Ki par consense est custumere  Mirur1 169vb38
connivance, complicity
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Ne fust la consence de vus, Ja folie n’eust entre nus  Trist thomas2 1578
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et si le defendaunt voile la felonie reconustre […] et apeler autres de la consense  BRITT i 108
2support, help
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  lessent ceo que enpris aveient Quant senz cunsence e sul se veient  S Clem ANTS 14382
aver consence a, de
to have dealings with
( 1181-85; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  (the member who has sinned) Si la en prenge penitence E pus del peché n’eit concense  Hosp Rule 1258
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Que nul […] Aparçoivere de li peust Que il a ceus de l’ost eust Eu consence de rien nule  Waldef BB 18689
aver consence en
to agree to, be involved with
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Aprés set anz sa conscience La remordi, ke unke consence Aveit en si male vie  Mir N-D 70.113
mettre a consence
to win over, persuade
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Si traisun n’i eust semence, Tost m’avreiz mis a cunsence  S Edw paris ANTS 349
traire a sa (etc.) consence
to make complicit
( MS: s.xiii2 ) si fet a purveer ententivement que le delit de la char ne traie l’alme a sa consence  A-N Piety 346

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This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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