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destendre2 (s.xii3/4)
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destendre2 (s.xii3/4)

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  FEW:  extendere 3,327a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  estendre (destendre)  DMF:  distendre  TLF:  distendre  OED:  distend v.  MED:  distenden v,  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to stretch out: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Tant cum hanste ly dure del cheval mort le destent  3195
2to distend: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Mielz vaudreit sovent as convives En mangant lasser ses gencives, Destendre son ventre e emplir [...]  14639
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  les humors qui sorhabundent destendent et desrumpent les veines  i 206

v.intrans.

to stretch: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  li halberc sunt serré e tenant. Maille n'i false ne clavel n'i destent  391

v.refl.

1to stretch: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  liez bein [sic] ses jambes a ses quisses qu’il ne se destende  i 79
2lawto extend (to): 
( 1311 )  nostre avoweré se destent sur les c. souz  Ed II xi 85

p.p. as a.

1wide open, extended: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  (the crow) se prist a gorjoier, Bec destendu, de goule overte  4877
2distended: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  la vessie [...] come ele est destendu et emplie [...]  i 236
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