desconoistre1 (s.xiiex)
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desconoistre1 (s.xiiex)

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[ FEW: 2/i,845b cognoscere; Gdf: 2,563b desconoistre 1; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,1523 desconoistre 2; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  déconnaître; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
desconustre;  disconoistre; 
p.p. desconu,  desconeu,  desconut; 
p.p. descuneu; 
p.p. discognu,  disconu,  discounu, 
pl. descoignite  438.17, 
pl. desconitz  ii 417  

v.a.

1to fail to recognize (someone): 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 )  pecché l’ad ensi encombré Qe son frere desconusseit  1044
2to be ignorant, unaware of: 
( 1307 )  Desconustre ne devez quele mees vous desclamez de nous tenir  33-35 Ed I 413
3to disown: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Jovin descunus e sun frere Neptun  335

p.p._as_a.

1(person or thing) not recognized, unfamiliar: 
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  G. meismes, pur estre desconuz des autres, avoyt un crest d’or  9.7
( 1321 )  Ceo est chose desconue a nous qe [...]  Ed II xxvi 205
( 1358 )  pur ceo qe moun seal a maintez est desconuz, jeo ay procuré a metre le commune seal de Romené  138
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  pur ce [...] que mesme nostre signet [...] a eux estait desconeuz  171.115.22
♦unknown, not known, unidentified: 
( 1285-86 )  cesti W.P. ensemblement. ov autres meffesours desconus a tort vynt a force e armes [...]  80
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Murdre est occisioun de homme desconu  i 38
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  tiel homme, desconu ou conu  60
( 1351-52 )  ajugeont les gentz [...] come treitours par diverses causes desconues a la Commune estre treison  ii 239
( 1399-1413 )  A.B. [...] ové plusours autres mesfaisours desconuz veignent ové forte mayn [...]  61

p.p._as_s.

1unknown, unidentified person: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  iloc requist Le aumone a fuer de mendyaunt Cum desconu e paynquerant (=as an unknown beggar)  680
( 1307-10 )  de L. [...] ové autres desconuz  335.4
desconu de
1ignorant of, unfamiliar with: 
( 1292-93 )  [...] cum a gens ignorans e desconus de la ley prient il remedie  69
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