1to shatter:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Trenche le braz destre, l’aubert ly desment
4123
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Si feri le paien sus el heaume lusent, Ke le coing abati e trestut le desment
3399
(
c.1185
)
Ainz ad le bon osberc safré Desmenti e desclavelé
8564
(
s.xiii1/3;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Le colp sur l’espalle descendi, Mainte maille i dementi, En la char nue pas ne feri
10402
1to be shattered:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Le blanc haubert maillé del cop se dementi
3038
2to be diminished:
(
c.1230;
MS: 1275-85
)
Kar l’ewe est a tutdis ardant, E la puur horrible e grant, E le froit tutdis ensement; L’un par l’autre ne se desment
1436
1defeated, humiliated:
(
1165-80?;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
(at the sight of the miracle) Nes Abraham, li esbaiz, Ki ert si vilment desmentiz, Eschinna de joie [...] e bel li fu, Qu’il ert sifaitement vencu
264.302
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desmentir3 (s.xii3/4)