descovenir (c.1270)

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descovenir (c.1270)

[ FEW: 2/ii,1127a convenire; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: 680c disconvenire ]
desconvenir;  disconvenir  

v.n.

1to disagree, be incompatible (with)
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  avarice [...] descovient en verité A la reale majesté  251

p.pr._as_a.

1lawimproper, contradictory, inconsistent
( 1312-13 )  si mettet avaunt un escrit qe ne fet pas mension et de nul terme n’est garr[aunt] de vostre bref eins par le descovenaunt fet de cest jugement  Ed II xiii 235
( 1316 )  la chartre nous servereit en partie et en partie se voidereit, qe serroit disconvenient en ley  Ed II xx 150
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