contreluter (c.1292)

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contreluter (c.1292)

[ FEW: 5,439a luctari; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF:  luitier (*); DMF:  contrelutter; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
countreluter;  countreloutrer  

v.a.

1to oppose
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  jamés neqedent ne ert le clerc receyvable a l’institucioun, taunt cum acun des parceners countrelute le presentement  ii 77
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Encountre ly (=God) ren ne arest, […] Fous est qe ceo countrelute  204
( 1323-25 )  n’ose nul de nous chose faire de contreluter la malice des enemis  147
to act against
( c.1356 )  Et si ascun bailif ath receu autre custume qe de droit devereit, […] ou ke la franchise dé  (ed. de) cynk ports en ascune manere ath contreluté  (ed. contre lute)  25
2lawto rebut, refute
( 1304 )  Depuis qe nous avoms affermé nostre estat de tens dount il n’ad memorie, e il countrelute nostre antiquité par une possession de si simple tens  32-33 Ed I 263
( 1313-14 )  a nomer la femme ne sereit qe veine chose, qe, tut fut ele nomee, ele ne poeit mie countreloutrer (var. contreluter) nostre actioun  Ed II viii 77

v.n.

1to resist
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  cum acun countrelute a fere homage a soen seignur  ii 35
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