deable (s.xii1/4)

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deable (s.xii1/4)

[ FEW: 3,63b diabolus; Gdf: ; GdfC: 9,375a diable; TL: 2,1900 diable; DEAF:  diable; DMF:  diable; TLF:  diable; OED:  devil n.; MED:  devel n.; DMLBS: 674b diabolus ]
daiable,  daible;  deauble,  deble,  deeble,  deiable,  deible;  diable,  dieble;  dyable,  dele,  dialbe  

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1theol.The Devil, Satan
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  icés ki funt servise A diable suvent  1641
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Tant ad forment dieble enticé Empeint a fere malvesté  1323
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  ceus ke deable ne puet essorber Par mescreaunce, il les enseigne a mesoverer  1588
( 1388 )  et disoient al enfaunt qe si elle passa la porte qe le daible (var. deibledeablediable) luy voilleit emporter  12 Rich II 73
theol.devil, servant of Satan
( MS: s.xii1/4 )  Si cist souros ci est venus par dialbe inchantesun, tollet l’en Deus par sa magne resurectium  82.1
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) St. Brendan Vit venir deiables mil Od turmentes e grant peril  1465
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Les debles d’enfern  1672
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  semblerent debles  864
2 pagan demon, pagan god
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) E sacrifierenr kur fils e lur filles as diables, e espandierent sanc nunnuisant  107.105.34
3demon, monster
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  iceste daible tu formas (Latin: leviathan istum plasmasti) que tu juasses en lui  189.CIII.26
4 name (used as a surname)
( 1221 )  Alexander le Deble  Deeble
( 1230 )  Roger le Diable  Deeble
deable meridien
meridien
s’en aler a deable
1theol.to go to Hell
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  Finablement si perirunt Quant a diable s’en irrunt  663
que deable!
1interj.why, what the Devil!
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  qe dele estes vous si coroucee od homme [...] qe vous volez pur vous vengier derobber Dieu [...]?  200.7-8
deableau  deablement  deablerie  deablesse  deablet  deablie  debler 
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