deservir3 (c.1260)

deservir3 (c.1260)

  FEW:  deservire 3,52b / servire 11,541a Gdf: GdfC:  deservir 9,332c TL: deservir 2,1571 DEAF:  servir (*)  DMF:  desservir 1  TLF:  desservir 2  OED:  deserve v.  MED:  deserven v.  DMLBS:  deservire 628c
deserver  

v.a.

1to serve
( 1332 )  car si Dieu plest il deservira a la reial majestee tut le temps de sa vie a voz comaundementz  222
( MS: s.xivex )  Dieu [...] devoutement deserver  (H2) 16r
( s.xivex )  que nul meistre resceyve ascun [...] apprentice d’autrieu pur lui deserver en sa art  i 113
2to serve, be of use (for), used (for)
( c.1260; MS: c.1275 )  les autres diseient que au pais ne poaint avenir ne deveient, desicum il avouit le fet son pere ke contre ne pot estre, ke donc deservireit la chartre de nent  65
( 1397 )  moun entier vestiment de camaca noir fait a deserver pour messe de requiem  i 227
servir 
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