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deprés (s.xii3/4)

deprés (s.xii3/4)

depré;  després  
  FEW:  presse *9,366a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  pres (depres)  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

adv.

1close at hand
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiim )  Mielz vaut bon veisin de pres que frere de loing  Paroles Salomun 4867
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Depré li furent, a destre part, Set gleives  Gui War 11122
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  il refiert [...] sor ces ke de pres sunt  Ancren2 127.29
( 1323 )  dehors en costein sojourn després  Red Bk 920
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  com le saunk de Estephne [...] fust espaundu, jeo estoys de pres et consentoi, et gardoi les vestures de cil qe lui occirent  Actes (A) 372c
closely, tightly
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  de pres sumes assis; N’avom force d’ester contre tanz enemis  Rom Chev ANTS 1546
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  de plus pres lor alun, Solunc çoe ke verrum dirrum nostre avisiun  Horn 154
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  la malveise envye qe de pres suoit le piee  Sz Med1 73.20
temporalin the present
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  Hom dit en reprover: Qy de loinz se purveit, de pres s’en joit  HENLEY2 308.c5
2nearly, approximately
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  deprés  (ed. de pres) ou la tierce partie ou la quarte des plus jovenes  vegetius2 18.3
la deprés
near by
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  il aveit longment demoree la deprés  BOZ Cont 186
deprés de
fig.closely to, imtimately with
( 1312 )  qe les malveis consaillers et lur erdantz demorantz de pres du roi soient oustiez  Ann Lond 211
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