corber (s.xii1)
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corber (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  curvare 2/ii,1588a Gdf:  corber 2,298c GdfC:  courver 9,229c TL: corber 2,848 / coirver 2,924 DEAF:  corber  / corver  DMF:  courber  TLF:  courber  OED:  courbe v.  / curbe v.  / curve v.  MED:  courben v.  DMLBS:  curvare 543a
corver;  curber;  curver,  curvir, 
p.pr. corfant  258  

v.a.

1to bend: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  devant la face de lui curverunt le genuil (Latin: curvabunt genu)  35.XXI.30
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  unches ne curberent le genuil devant Baal  161
( MS: s.xiii1 )  curvendum: curver  ii 104

p.p._as_a.

1curved: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Dous cornes ad agues, Trenchanz e esmolues E si sunt endentees Cum facilles curvees  766
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Courvez est, com fauz par semblant  4649
♦bent: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  sudibus vi lentatis: curvis  ii 62
♦arched: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  les sorciels corbés  295
♦bowed (in submission): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Venez, aurums e seiums curvé (Latin: curvemur); flechisums nod [sic] genuilz  175.XCIV.6
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  lur dos seient tut dis curvez  343

p.p._as_s.

1 one who is bent: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiiex )  Icist (=Jesus) a certes garist les sors et les clops et les curvés et les paralitikes et les cieus et les lepreus et les encombrez de deable, et ceo par mais feiz  16
recorber 
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