deguiser (1150-70)
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deguiser (1150-70)

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[ FEW: 17,596b *wisa; Gdf: 2,593b desguisier; GdfC: 9,339b desguisier; TL: 2,1602 desguiser; DEAF: G1663 guise (desguiser); DMF:  déguiser; TLF:  déguiser; OED:  disguise v.; MED:  disgisen v.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
desguiser;  degiser,  degeser  

v.n.

1to disguise: 
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Lur faces unt la deguisé Par visers  4299
( MS: s.xiiiex )  dissimulo: deguiser  ii 168
( MS: s.xiiiex )  dissimilo: degeser  ii 169
♦fig.to conceal, mask: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Pur deguiser sun corage Od grant brut & od grant gent vint  129.146

v.refl.

1to disguise oneself: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Si s’est lors deguisez suz sun chapel feutrin  4075
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  desguisad sei de puldre dunt il entalemaschad sun visage  165
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Tant sovent com soi desguisot, Ses voiz od ses chieres muot  8501
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  La tierce fee se est deguisé, Si ad le almoine demandé  5634

p.p._as_a.

1disguised: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Deguisee garnement avoit il vestuz  5548
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Cum penant se sunt aturné, Teint de vis, de dras desguisé  2059
♦strange, grotesque: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Au muster verrez degysé testes Ke resemblent cornu bestes  360
♦strange, unexpected: 
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Li un vadlet mist dedeins la founde La plus degysé chose du munde, Un mirour  865
2deceitful: 
( 1323-25 )  si ount dit paroles mult degysez sur luy  122
( 1347 )  [...] les ount delaié voluntrément & ajourné en degisé manere, sanz discution faire de la verité  ii 197
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