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contur1 (1155)
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contur1 (1155)

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comptere;  conteour,  contor,  contour;  counteour,  counter,  countere,  countour,  countur;  cunteor,  cunter,  cunteur,  cuntor,  cuntur  
  FEW:  computare 2/ii,995a Gdf:  conteor 2,264b GdfC:  conteor 1 9,175a TL: contëor 2,769 DEAF:  conter (conteor)  DMF:  conteur  TLF: ∅ OED:  countour n.  MED:  countour n.  DMLBS:  computator 1 414c

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1narrator, story-teller: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Tant unt li cunteur cunté E li fableur tant flablé  Brut WACE 9796
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Tiele vie demein cum wus sui cunteor  Horn 4053
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le cuntur ke fu de bone fey, Ke hay mençonge sulum la ley  S Fran ANTS 4615
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  un counteour de noveles deableries  Actes (A) 370b
2informant: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiiex )  Solum le dist de mun cuntur  Dermot2 407
3lawoccupationadvocate, pleader (who makes the count at the beginning of pleading): 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  (At the Last Judgement) se trarrunt arere e cunte e cunteur  GUISCH 314
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ne lur vendra (l. vaudra) cuntur ne cunte: Chescun por sei respondera  BOZ Serm 81.41
( c.1280 )  nul des avantdiz […] ne doit sustener partie en curt […] ne estre cuntur ne enpernur de parole  Bor Cust ii 12
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  countours sunt serjauntz sachantz la lei del reaume qi servent al comun del poeple a pronuncier e defendre les actions en jugement pur ceux qi mester en unt pur loer  Mir Just 47
4 name (used as a surname): 
( 1250 )  Matthew Cunter  Family Names Counter
( 1301 )  John le Counter  Family Names Counter
( 1379 )  Johanna Countere  Family Names Counter
commun, grant, sergant contur
lawoccupationserjeant-at-law: 
( 1292 )  justice, ne clerke, ne serjaunt countour, ne atturné, ne apprentiz  Lib Cust 203
( 1307 )  .xx. soutz pur .j. sergant countour en le play q’est entre lé templers e nous  Westm Wenlok 125
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  si come le sergant countour ad profert  Nov Narr 30
( 1332 )  D.A. qi est eslu a estre grantz compteres de la dite ville  Corr Lond 384
( MS: 1419 )  Le […] commune sergeaunt de ley, qui autrement est dit ‘commune countour’  Lib Alb 47

See also:

conter  recunteor 
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