debatre (s.xii3/4)

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debatre (s.xii3/4)

[ FEW: 1,292b battuere; Gdf: 2,434a debatre; GdfC: 9,275c debatre; TL: 2,1232 debatre; DEAF: ; DMF:  débattre; TLF:  débattre; OED:  debate v.1 / debate v.2; MED:  debaten v.1 / debaten v.2; DMLBS: 566b debatare ]
debatter  

v.a.

1to batter, beat
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Idunc l’unt tost despoillez, De plunbatis l’unt debatu  666
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Pris est Aracle e defulez, Debatuz e delapidez  86rubr
( MS: 1272-82 )  Pernez la jevene geline tote vive, [...] si la debatez enviroun de une verge  236D
( 1293 )  od force etc. ly avoit debaté e emprisoné  21-22 Ed I 185
2to break, smash
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Lancent a lui guivres e aguz darz, Entur le cunte debatent sun halberc  878
to break down, demolish
( 1312 )  il aveit fossé levé [...] mes nous meimes debatimes  Ed II xii 125
( 1372 )  noz (l. voz?) ministres ont debatuz le haughyngrove [...] et aussint [...] ont fauchez  (ed. fanchez) [...] nostre pree  ii 85
3to debate, argue
( 1297 )  e ount cetes choses debatu communément par touz lé degrez de clergie  124
( 1318 )  come les Prelatz [...] eussent debatu [...] la manere de commencement [...]  1.5
( 1356 )  facez diligeaument examiner et debatre le procés d’un plee d’errour pendant devant vous  v.cxxxix
to fight over
( 1325 )  [...] sur lequel chastel assez fu debatu  96
debatre sa (etc.) peitrine
peitrine#1
debatre sun (etc.) piz
piz#1

v.refl.

1to beat oneself
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (The mother of a dead child) Sey memes debaty cruelement E crya e brua […]  6831
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