continuer (1299-1300)
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continuer (1299-1300)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1109b continuus; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,176c continuer; TL: 2,774 continüer; DEAF:  continüer; DMF:  continuer; TLF:  continuer; OED:  continue v.; MED:  continuen v.; DMLBS: 468b continuare ]
contenuer  

v.a.

1to continue: 
( 1309 )  le plé ne fut nent continué (var. fust discontinué)  Ed II ii 153
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  La quelle (=study) vous comanc sur ma benisone que vous contenuz en avant  371
( 1383-84 )  qe le processe […] soit continué […] tan q’al prochein Parlement  iii 182
( 1413 )  […] contenuer les malveys meschiefs […]  iv 11

v.n.

1to continue: 
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  del grand desir qu’il ad a continuer a les Escoles  411
( 1422 )  malices, meffaitz & robberies continuent de jour en jour  iv 190
♦to continue, endure, be maintained: 
( 1316 )  aprés sa mort entrames en ceus tenemenz cum fitz etc. et issi la taille continue en nostre persone saunz chaunge d’estat  Ed II xx 141
( 1360-61 )  cel droit voet continuer  i 367 xii

v.refl.

1to continue, stretch: 
( 1299-1300 )  E le dit fossé [...] se (=si: 'so that the moat...'?) continuera tot entour le pel  E 101/482/17/3
recontinuer 
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