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corber (s.xii1)
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The form corfer is a cross reference to the following entry:

corber (s.xii1)

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corver;  curber;  curver,  curvir, 
(p.pr. corfant  Gloss Nequam1 258)  
  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

v.trans.

to bend: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  devant la face de lui curverunt le genuil (Latin: curvabunt genu)  Camb Ps 35.XXI.30
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  unches ne curberent le genuil devant Baal  Liv Reis1 161
( MS: s.xiii1 )  curvendum: curver  TLL ii 104

p.p. as a.

curved: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Dous cornes ad agues, Trenchanz e esmolues E si sunt endentees Cum facilles curvees  Best ants 766
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Courvez est, com fauz par semblant  Dial Greg SATF 4649
♦bent: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  sudibus vi lentatis: curvis  TLL ii 62
♦arched: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  les sorciels corbés  Lapid 295
♦bowed (in submission): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Venez, aurums e seiums curvé (Latin: curvemur); flechisums nod [sic] genuilz  Camb Ps 175.XCIV.6
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  lur dos seient tut dis curvez  Mirur2 343

p.p. as s.

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  Evang Nic Prose1 16

See also:

recorber 
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