desparager (s.xii3/4)

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desparager (s.xii3/4)

[ FEW: 7,597a par; Gdf: 2,621a desparagier; GdfC: ; TL: 2,1678 desparagier; DEAF: ; DMF:  desparager; TLF: ; OED:  disparage v.; MED:  disparagen v.; DMLBS: 687b disparagare ]
disparager,  disparacher  App VIII 778 disparicher  779  

v.a.

1lawto disparage (in marriage)
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  D’onur ne de mari n’est ses los abessez, E vous ne serez, sire, point desparagés  3695
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  ele est en chois de plusours Ki trestuz l’eiment par amurs, Dunt el n’ert pas desparagee Ne avilee ne abeissee  2339
( 1275 )  [...] si eles [...] ne se veillent par lor chief seygnur marier ou eles ne seient desparagez  i 33 xxii
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  si acune (=female heir) de juvene age soit marié a tiel ou ele est desparagé  ii 24
( 1317 )  [...] sufficient mariage sauncz estre desparagé  Ed II xxii 148
2to degrade, humiliate
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  [...] Ke jo fusse de ceuls vengié Ki les miens ont desparagé  4710
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Dames e gentiz puceles [..]. Des Daneis sunt desparagees E viument de lur cors traitees. Tolent lur aneus de lur deiz, Robes, deners e palefreis  572
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Meint hom et femme a grant damage Per celle defaut jeo desparage  186
3to waste, squander
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  mult serroit un si tresfynement bon boire [...] desparagez en moy vilement  132
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