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(
1121-25; MS: s.xiv1
)
Altre beste veient venir Qui bien le deit cuntretenir
S Brendmup 928
(
s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiiin
)(the Bretons assemble their fleet) Pur lur terre recovrir revindrent, Mais li Engleis la lor cuntretindrent Sis chacierent par force e par poeir Desqu'en Guales
Merlin Prophhelias 27.16
2to hold back, prevent from moving:
(
1163-70; MS: s.xiii2
)
sa main met al bastun, Si l’asaie de traire a sei Mais la merite del saint rei A le bastun cuntretenu
S Edwbarking 5866
v.refl.
to oppose, offer resistance:
(
1155; MS: s.xiii4/4
)
E encor la u assis sunt E u il nul succurs n'atendent, Se contretienent e defendent
BrutWACE 4662
contretenir (1121-25)