defuir2 (c.1136-37)
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defuir2 (c.1136-37)

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  FEW:  fodere 3,663b Gdf:  desfoer 2,587b / desfoir 2,587b GdfC: ∅ TL: desfoïr 2,1591 DEAF:  fuir (defuir)  DMF:  desfouir  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED:  diffode v.  DMLBS:  defodere 593c
defoir,  defouir;  deffoir,  desfuir  

v.n.

1to exhume, disinter: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Puis en perdit W. la teste [...] e a Wincestre Lung tens aprés fud defuid  5723
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Le seint cors del martyr Edmund Funt ignelement defuir  2959
♦to dig (up), excavate: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Deforras (Latin: effoderis) la come tresor  1699
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1300 )  Mut fist mal [...] Cil ki primes quist minere, E defuir fist la terre Pur or e pur argent querre  661
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Tantost a la tumbe s’en vunt E bonement defui l’unt  85.80

p.p._as_a.

1unburied: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ilokes (=on Calvary) gisont sovent cors porriz pardesus  (ed. par de sus) la terre defoyiz  (ed. de foyiz) (var. (BN: s.xivin) desfuiz) e deseveliz  206.10
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