desveier (1113-19)
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desveier (1113-19)

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[ FEW: 14,374a via; Gdf: 2,681b desvoier 1; GdfC: 9,367c desvoier; TL: 2,1820 desvoiier 1; DEAF:  voie (desvoiier); DMF:  dévoyer; TLF:  dévoyer; OED:  desvoy v.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 643a deviare ]
desveer,  desver,  desvier,  desvoier;  deveier,  devier  

v.a.

1to misguide, lead astray: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ke te gard d’estrange moiller K’el ne te puisset desveer  4600
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Tant l'ad Diables desveied [...] Que paene ert  6994
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  […] Dunt terre est mult afeblie[e] E la gent tantost devie[e] Par les pledurs  206
2to divert: 
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  a entencioun de vendre (=Church lands) heritablement et a deveier a son proufit  220.40
♦to reject: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Il vous covient primes parler la parole Dieu; mais coment desivez (l. desviez)vous ceste chose (Latin: sed quoniam repellitis illud), et vous mesmez juggez nient dignes a pardurable  (B) 217b
3to distract: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Plus grant qe dire ne porroie Est la dolor qui me desvoie  3326

v.n.

1to go astray: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Pechiez fait home trebuchier E avogler e desveier  1082
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ki desveiet de dreit chemin, A mort durable vait senz fin  7715
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Nis le rei del pais faites vus desveier  1198

v.refl.

1to go astray: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Seul cest oeil (=J.C.’s) remetoit en voie Teophile quant se desvoie  3738

p.p._as_a.

1misguided, in error: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  ceo est grant falted, E primes fud truvee De alcun hume desvee (var. (L: s.xiiiin) desvet)  2618
( MS: s.xiii2 )  Amur est une pensee enragee Ke le udif humme meyne par veye deveyé (Latin: ducit per devia)  255.2
2lost, hidden: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  (Hippopotami) Muscez sunt as forestz e as bois desvez  4429
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