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demuree (1120-40)
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demuree (1120-40)

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demuré,  demurede,  demurie;  demoeré,  demoree  (demoroie  Lyric 83.4)  
  FEW:  demorari 3,38a Gdf:  demoree 2,503c GdfC: ∅ TL: demoree 2,1382 DEAF:  demorer (demuree)  DMF:  demeurée  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  demoratio 608a

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1delay: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  un cunseil li est des suens duné: [...] Laissast le siege [...]. Si fist il veir - n’i fud plus demuré  FANT OUP 751
2period of waiting: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  cum longa demurede Ai atendude an la maisun tun pedra  S Alexis1 468
3stay: 
( 1397 )  la demuree d’evesqes & dames en sa compaignie  Rot Parl1 iii 339
♦lawcontinuance (of an imposition): 
( 1327-77 )  q’ils facent descharger de tout la dite demurie de les vj li’ xxij d. issint de eux lever (l. levez)  Northumb 105
sanz demuree, sanz nule demuree
immediately: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Qu’il vus ait de guerre, hastif, senz demuree  FANT OUP 442
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Pus sanz nule demuree, A l’ainz que pot s’en est alee  S Modw 142
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  a veires sanz demoeré A terre chet, gule baee  Mir N-D 78.113
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