decurs (s.xii1/3)
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decurs (s.xii1/3)

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  FEW:  currere 2/ii,1572b Gdf:  decors 2,449a GdfC:  descours 9,326b TL: decors 2,1261 DEAF:  cors 2 (decors)  DMF:  décours  TLF:  décours  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  decursus 2 582b
decors,  decours;  decorse;  descours;  decurz  

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1course (of stream): 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  iert ensement cume le fust qued est plantet dejuste les decurs des ewes  43.1.3
♦fig.course: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  [...] E qu’il nus garde de vilanie Enz el decurs de ceste vie  7578
♦flowing, run: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  la ou il (=air) gist froiz par art de la decorse d'ewe  i 168
2astron.(period of time during the) waning of the moon: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Al decurs (Latin: diminutio) de la lune  i 66
( MS: s.xiii2 )  E deit comencer en creisaunt e veer k’il est .ix. nuz devaunt le descours e nent plus  85.13
( c.1300?; MS: s.xivm )  si donez a beivre .ix. jourz al cressant et .viij. a decurz  13.407
♦fig.decline: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  (the name of Nain) Flot mustret u commociun E cest mund bien signifie Ki en decurs se mot e plie  152ra36
3lower state: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  En cest decurs (=the world) Deus descendist Pur nus eshaucer en sa cit  2326
en (le) decurs
1astron.(of the moon) at the waning: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  (Selenitis) Sainte est e o la lune creist, E el decors si redescreist  51.570
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  en decours de la lune  133 (var.)
estre en decurs
1astron.(of the moon) to wane, be on the wane: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  quant la lune est en decurs [...]  219.465
♦fig.to be in decline: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  La processiun vait, li munz est en decurs  6121
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Trop est vertuz ja en decurs En Engleterre  3733
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