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desplaier (c.1136-65)

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[ FEW: 9,70b plicare; Gdf: 2,632a desplier; GdfC: 9,354a despleier; TL: 2,1704 desploiier; DEAF: ∅; DMF: déployer; TLF: déployer; OED: display v.; MED: displaien v.; DMLBS: 690c displicare ]

desplaer, despleer, despleier, desploier; deplaier; depleier, deplier; displaier

v.a.1to open (out) ♦ to unfurl ♦ to set out, display 2to reveal, disclose ♦ to expose ♦ to explain, elucidate ♦ to develop, expound 3to unbind, untie 4to scatter
v.refl.1to open, unfold
p.p._as_a.1unfurled ♦ (of an eagle) with outstretched wings, displayed
sbst._inf.1opening out, unfolding

v.a.

1to open (out):

( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) Quant ses levres mort e deplaie 9800

( 1184; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Ore le (=piece of silken cloth) mustrez E devant moy le despleyez 38

( MS: s.xiii¹ ) extricet: (R) deplyet(var. (D: s.xiii¹) depliit) 244

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Hei! Livre ou fine amor blanchoie [...] Adonc tes foilz pur moi desploie 5191

♦to unfurl:

( s.xii^3/4; MS: s.xiv² ) Donc veissez [...] Desplaier ces gomfanons [...] 4034

( 1174-75; MS: s.xii^ex ) Tost veissiez en haste despleier mainte mance 886

( s.xiii^3/3; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) ly count d’Artoise despleie sa banere 37

♦to set out, display:

( s.xiv ) cheapinge interpretatur [...] desplaer marchaundise 1033, FN 3

2to reveal, disclose:

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) la joie Ke Dieu de gloire leur envoie Quant son visage leur desploie 124

♦to expose:

( MS: s.xiv^m ) touz sount despliez que estoient envolupez en argent 3vb

♦fig.to explain, elucidate:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) (the statement) est envolupee et coverte e oscure, mes jo la desplerrai et descovererai et ferrai cliere 82.25

♦fig.to develop, expound:

( c.1235; MS: c.1235 ) Al nun le Fiz Marie [...] Cumence Amphibals sun sermun desploier 103

3to unbind, untie:

( 1305 ) e les turbes [...] debruserent [...] deplierent e en les fossez rejettent 32-33 Ed I 485

4to scatter:

( 1305 ) les turbes [...] en sa severale turberie debruserent [...], deplierent e en les fossez rejettent 32-33 Ed I 485

v.refl.

1to open, unfold:

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Sa beauté (=of J.C. on the Cross), voir, le liz effroie En mai quant matin se desploie 2515

p.p._as_a.

1unfurled:

( c.1292; MS: c.1300 ) si la disseisine fust fete a banere desplaé i 354

( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv¹ ) la banere E. le sené Ové les treys lepardz en place desplaé 395.1759

( a.1399; MS: a.1399 ) portaunt une baner desplayé 148.13

♦herald.(of an eagle) with outstretched wings, displayed:

( s.xiii; MS: 1607 ) Le roy d’Almaine, d’or un egle displayé sable 38.3

( c.1350; MS: s.xvⁱⁿ ) J. fitz H. de T. port d’or ové trois fees d’azure chargez d’un egle desplaié de gules beck et pees d’or 327

( 1397 ) mon blank lit de soy, overez des egles bloies desplaiés i 231

sbst._inf.

1opening out, unfolding:

( 1184; MS: s.xiii^ex ) rien ne vaut le despleer (=of the silken cloth in Thomas’s mother’s dream) 50

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