desculurer (s.xii1)

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desculurer (s.xii1)

[ FEW: 2/ii,923a color; Gdf: ; GdfC: 9,283b decolorer; TL: 2,1511 descolorer; DEAF: ; DMF:  décolorer; TLF:  décolorer; OED:  discolour, discolor v.; MED:  discoloren v.; DMLBS: 680a discolorare ]
descolorer,  descolourer,  descolurer;  decolorer,  discolorer  

v.a.

1to drain of colour
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Tu (=J.C. on Cross) moers, e quant ta douce face La mort descolore et efface [...]  2254
2to discolour, darken
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Ne vus esmerveillez ke suy brunette e haslee, kar le soleil m’ad desculuree  66.46
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  li verrai soleil ke est Jesu Crist vus ad issi forscloses, descolourees, e par dehors ullees  170.32

v.refl.

1to be abashed, timid
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Dunne [...] encuntre tes aversaires me desculurai (Latin: distabui) ?  248.CXXXVIII.23

p.p._as_a.

1discoloured
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  ce conoist l’en par [...] l’urine descoloree et trouble  i 218
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  par autretez degrez passe li vins ki est fais de rouges grapes, car al comencement est descolorez et aproche mout a blanche colour  97.930
fig.tainted, blemished
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Seinte Eglise [...] desculuree Est en ceste vie e blesmee  1115
2pale, wan
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  La dame mult s’en adulat, De la hunte que fait li ad, Tute en devint descoluree De la dolur qu’en ad menee  2635
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  La dedenz unt Gire trové Pale e teint e descoluré  1930
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Si oil esteient tresturné. Sis nez aguz, descoluré  154.42
( c.1185 )  Veit le descoloré e pale  1207
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