denaturer (s.xii3/4)
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denaturer (s.xii3/4)

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[ FEW: 7,47b natura; Gdf: 2,614c desnaturer; GdfC: 9,347c desnaturer; TL: 2,1656 desnaturer; DEAF:  nature (desnaturer); DMF:  dénaturer; TLF:  dénaturer; OED:  disnatural v.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 610a denaturare ]
desnaturer  

v.a.

1to change the nature of: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  (the wolf which had guarded the saint’s head) Idunc al bois est repairé [...] Ne volt estre desnaturé  1063

v.n.

1 to behave unnaturally, lack natural feeling: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Li baronz de la terre [...] Qui le fiz vers le pere firent deznaturer Et le pere et le fiz firent entremeller  i 5.78

v.refl.

1to behave unnaturally, lack natural feeling: 
( c.1185 )  [...] a tuz dis mais vus dei amer, Se ne me voil desnaturer  9246
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  tant desnaturé se sunt Que le bien leissent e mal funt  8801
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Le quor certes se denature Que tiel dolor sanz doel endure  651

p.p._as_a.

1unnatural, perverse: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  tote rien s’esjoist fors cil desnaturé  97 (var.)
2med.abnormal: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et por ce que li sanc est tot desnaturés Nel poet cor retenir, en haine est tornez  ii 86
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