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decouper (c.1150)

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decouper (c.1150)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,871b colaphus; Gdf: 2,447b decoper; GdfC: 9,283c decolper; TL: 2,1259 decoper; DEAF: coup (decoper); DMF: découper; TLF: découper; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 579b decolpare ]

decolper, decoper, decopier; descoper, descouper

v.a.1to cut up, into pieces ♦ to cut off ♦ to cut down 2to cut down, kill 3to smash, hack to pieces

v.a.

1to cut up, into pieces:

( c.1150; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) si li dist Pur quei et coment il l’occist Et que il l’out tut descolpé Et al tonel mis et salé 1139

( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 ) Il fet un bof devant li amener, A un serjant fet tut decolper (E) 5949

( MS: s.xiv^1/3 ) treis coyns menu copez e une grasse angoyle menu decopé 202

♦to cut off:

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) La ot taunt decoupé e poinz e piz e piez 3351

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) Decolpent poinz e braz e pez 2197

( 1411 ) lour testes serroient illoeqes decoupés iii 665

♦to cut down:

( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv¹ ) le dit W. [...] fist decouper ses arbres 349.10

( 1321 ) la keine (=oak) decoperoint par une hache Ed II xxvi 196

2to cut down, kill:

( c.1200; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) Il traist s’espee, si l’ad tut decolpé Devant le rei (B) 6664

( s.xiii^m; MS: s.xiii^ex ) S. et si compaignons en sunt toutz descoupee 1102

( c.1334; MS: s.xiv^m ) il tua et evugli et decopa les aliez sa mere 248.12

3to smash, hack to pieces:

( c.1320; MS: 1419 ) huys depesciez et decopiez 111

( c.1325; MS: c.1325 ) les Pharisens [...] le (=statue) fesoyent abatre et descouper tout en peces 64.7

decolper par peces

1 to cut into pieces:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Samuel executes King Agag: Tut l'ad par pieces decolpé E par la cuntree geté 7873

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