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deça (s.xii3/4)
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deça (s.xii3/4)

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decea,  decha,  deeza,  desa,  desça,  descea  (deceo  Anon Chr1 96.15)  
  FEW:  hac 4,372b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  deça 9,278b TL: deça 2,1241 DEAF:  ça (deça)  DMF:  deça  TLF:  deça  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

prep.

1localon this side of: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Al rei eusse fait tant guerre, Que decha la mer d’Engleterre Plein pié de terre nen eust  Rom de Rou wace ii 256.10002
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Pur ceo dussom haster aprés nos enemis Qe decea les deserz les eusom conquis  Rom Chev ANTS 4442
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Plus riche prince n’estayt deça la mountayne  LANGTOFT wright ii 2
( 1299 )  noster eschetour decea Trente  King’s Bench iii 88
( 1400-01 )  de ça et de la la mere  Rot Scot ii 157
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  demourer deça la mier (=as opposed to on the Isle of Wight)  Lett & Pet 21.9
2temporal(of time) before the end of: 
( 1323 )  de temps en temps de cea le mois de seint Michel  Red Bk 966

adv.

1localon this side, over here: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Fors decha, fors dela longues se combatirent  Rom de Rou wace i 20.133
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  En tute Grece ne deça N’aveit femme de sa manere  S Gile1 28
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Cest fu ke nus avum desa (=in this world) N’ad endreit ceo plus de chalur Ke n’avereit le fu fet d’un peintur  Lum Lais ANTS 12812
♦localon this side of the sea (the Channel): 
( 1311 )  auxi bien dela com decea  Stats i 163 xxi
2lawin this case: 
( 1317 )  auxi de sça  YBB Ed II xxi 131
de deça
localon this side of: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  pelrinage de decea la meer de Grece sicum a Rome, ou a Seint Jage  Mir Just 84
♦localover here, on this side: 
( 1297-98 )  il semble a nostre consail de decea qe [...]  Treaty Rolls i 134
( 1298 )  eux e leur compaignons de decea  Crisis 190.5
par deça
localon this side: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  diatessaron par deça E diapenté par dela  Lum Lais ANTS 6771
deça e dela
localon both sides: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E decea e dela sunt gent esbaudies  Rom Chev ANTS 2888
( 1303 )  E est acordé deça e dela qe [...]  Treaty Rolls i 159
ne deça ne dela
localon neither side: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ne decea ne dela n’ad nule amistez  Rom Chev ANTS 1793

See also:

enarere  pardeça 
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