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destre1 (1113-19)
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destre1 (1113-19)

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daestre;  dextre;  deistre,  deitre  
  FEW:  dexter 3,61b Gdf:  destre 2,669b GdfC: ∅ TL: destre 2,1786 DEAF:  destre  DMF:  dextre  TLF:  dextre  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  dexter 645c

a.

right(-hand): 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  li multuns [...] Se gist [...] Sur le destre costet  Comput ANTS 1238
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Sor son chief mist son destre pié  S Marg wace 29.378 (A)
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  en sa destre main  Josaphaz2 1680
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  le seignur de F. tenyst sa mayn dextre  Anon Chr1 110.28
a destre main
on the right hand side: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  A destre main Peitou laisserent  Brut WACE 797

s.

1right hand: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Puis prent Brandan par la destre Pur mener l’en a sun estre  S Brend mup 661
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Mais riches conforz vus puet estre Que vus murrez od ceste destre Dunt jo ai maint bon cop duné  Brut WACE 894
( MS: 1155-60 )  la tue destre, Sire, ferit l’enemi (Latin: dextera tua, Domine, percussit inimicum)  Camb Ps 268.6
2geog.right-hand side, south: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Aquilon e destre (Latin: dextrum) tu crias  Camb Ps 162.LXXXVIII.12
3right-hand side: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Dist li Sire al mien Segnor: 'Sié devers les meies destres [...]'  Oxf Ps ANTS 111.109.1
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  bealtez en ta destre (Latin: in dextera tua)  Camb Ps 20.XV.11
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Ceste mueisun ert faite par la destre al haltisme  Joshua Sermons ii 30
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  [ ...] Ke vice ne puisse en luy nestre: Par senestre d’adversité, Ne par destre [de] prosperté  Corset ANTS 1322
a, al, sur destre
on the right: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) Turment grant ad a destre, Ne l'ad menur a senestre  S Brend mup 1235
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  A destre out le soleil [...]; A senestre [...]  Rom Chev ANTS 5474
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim ) L’une meité (=of the helmet) l’en abat sur destre  Ch Guill 1921
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Al destre sun pere veit ester Jesun  S Aub 1706
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1300 )  Les bons a deus rencs a destre, Les malveis a deus rencs a senestre  Dial Jul 1854
♦geog.on the right-hand side, to the south, east: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  alcune fermeted el munt Achilé ki est a destre del desert  Liv Reis1 47
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) e lesse hom Secille a senestre, e Meiaute a destre, ki est la costere de Barbarie  Iter paris 75
(a, au) destre (e) (a, au) senestre
senestre
as destres
on the right: 
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  il (=God) est a moy as destres  Actes (A) 362c (moi a destre (B) 210b
del destre
on the right: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Pur ceo est il enhaucee del destre Deu  Actes (B) 210b
tenir a destre
to turn, keep to the right: 
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 ) Mes jo vus dirray mon conseyl pur ben eschaper: Pernons congé de la dame si la lessom passer E tenom nous au destre par un estreyt senter  BOZ Char 547
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