desencumbrer (1150-70)

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desencumbrer (1150-70)

[ FEW: 2/ii,939b *comboros; Gdf: 2,576a desencombrer; GdfC: 9,331a desencombrer; TL: 2,1561 desencombrer; DEAF: ; DMF:  désencombrer; TLF:  désencombrer; OED:  disencumber v.; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
desencombrer,  desencombrier  

v.a.

1to release, set free
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Les piez li ad desseelez E quitement desencumbrez  1410
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Cum plus se peinnet son cors desencombrier, Plus se fermat, ne se pout avaler  (B) 11007
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  [...] qu’il (=a madman) fust desencumbré Del traitre e del malfé Ki l’ad suzduit  6370
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Kar le fiz Deu vus desencumbra Del deble  68.32
( s.xiiim; MS: s..xiiiex )  Quant nos avum les cors encumbrez des langors, nes poum pas desencumbrer  100.115
to free from embarrassment
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiim )  Le uches mult haut ad fet lever Pur la dame desencumbrer  147
2eccl.to remove an unlawful incumbent
( 1343 )  Puis q’il ne dedit pas [...] q’il ad encombré l’eglise, nous prioms qe agardé soit q’il desencombre l’eglise  17-18 Ed III 99

v.refl.

1to free oneself
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  E quant se volent delivrer, Ne se poent desencombrer  405
descombrer 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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