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deguerpir (s.xii1)

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deguerpir (s.xii1)

degerpir,  degwerpir,  desverpir,  deverpir;  disgerper  
  FEW:  *werpjan 17,566a Gdf:  deguerpir 2,476a GdfC: TL: deguerpir 2,1311 DEAF:  guerpir (deguerpir) G1567 DMF:  déguerpir  TLF:  déguerpir  OED: MED: DMLBS:

v.trans.

1to abandon, forsake, leave
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  tu ne deguerpis (Latin: dereliquisti) les queranz tei  Camb Ps 12.IX.10
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Quare me derelequisti? [...] purquoy m’avez deguerpi?  Mirour Egl 68.18
( 1385 )  grande partie des communes du dite citee ont disgerpez la dite citee  Northern Pet 119
lawto abandon
( 1292 )  ele ne deit dowere aver pas (l. par) la resone ke ele deguerpi son baron e demora od cely ke ore la ad esposé, en adulterie  YBB 20-21 Ed I 183
2 to abandon, give up, renounce
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Cesse de ire, e deguerpis furur  Oxf Ps ANTS 63.36.8
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Crestiented tut deguerpirent  GAIMAR1 1132
( 1312-19 )  fust conseillé [...] de suire sa demande en chauncellerie e deguerpist la suite par noun poair  Northumb 239
( 1318 )  il deguerpi (var. guerpy) la croice et se mist en covert du boys  YBB Ed II xxiii 37
3to leave behind
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Pes, fet il, deuerpe (l. deverpe), (var. (BN: s.xivin) les jeo) entre vus  Ancren2 24.10
4to put to flight
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  le leverer d’Albanie [...] Qe refusa le porc e l’ours deguerpy  Rom Chev ANTS 5024
deguerpir a
to leave to, in the hands of
( c.1300; MS: s.xivin )  La cure de cest polipus seit deguerpi a cyrurgiens  A-N Med ii 156

v.intrans.

(of heart) to fail
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  mis quers deguerpit (Latin: dereliquit) mei  Camb Ps 70.XXXIX.15
deguerpir de (+ inf.)
to cease to, stop
( 1396 )  les marchantz [...] deguerpount outrément de vener ou reparer en la dite ville  Smit 471.740

p.p. as a.

abandoned, forsaken
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) ne vi juste deguerpit (Latin: non vidi iustum derelictum)  Oxf Ps ANTS 63.36.26
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivin )  (the gangrenous clerk:) Soul giseit si feitement, Deguerpi de tote gent Tot denflent (l. enflent) et tot pulent Et moltz dolurousement  Mir Vge 39.74
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  vileyns deguerpiz et engitez par lour seignurs  BRITT i 214
deserted
( 1343-50 )  et le foerent en une place degerpie saunz fosse faite  Cron Lond1 52.22

sbst. inf.

forsaking
( 1307 )  (of a married couple) le deguerpir de gree sanz la demore ne la demore sanz deguerpir n’est cause doné par statut  YBB 33-35 Ed I 535
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