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contreluter (c.1292)

contreluter (c.1292)

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

v.trans.

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  BRITT ii 77
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Encountre ly (=God) ren ne arest, […] Fous est qe ceo countrelute  S Cath anon 204
( 1323-25 )  n’ose nul de nous chose faire de contreluter la malice des enemis  St Sard 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)  ROUGH 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  YBB 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  YBB Ed II viii 77

v.intrans.

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

See also:

luter1 
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