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