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descupler (s.xii3/3)
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descupler (s.xii3/3)

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descopler,  descoupler;  decoupler  (descolpler)  
  FEW:  copula 2/ii,1158a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  descopler 9,325a TL: descopler 2,1528 DEAF:  cople (descopler)  DMF:  découpler  TLF:  découpler  OED:  discouple v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  discopulare 681b

v.trans.

1ven.to unleash (hounds): 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Tute la moete ad descoplee  S Gile1 1594
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Lur chiens ilekes decouplerent  Ipom BFR 582
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Descouplé i est meint brachet  Ipom BFR 593
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Un fier sengler i troverent, Lur chiens tuz i descolplerent  Gui War 6819
( 1305 )  e descopla ces (=ses) chens e les suffrit cure a son deduyt  YBB 32-33 Ed I 489
2to separate: 
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Car si hayne i seit par custum (=between man and wife) [...] Meuz vaudreint [estre] descuplé  Man pechez 2407

p.p.

1ven.unleashed: 
( c.1185 )  Descuplé sunt ja li brachet  Proth ANTS 1871
2unyoked: 
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  siniugi: (D) decouplé  TLL ii 74
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