We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
devestir (s.xii2)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

The form desvestir is a cross reference to the following entry:

devestir (s.xii2)

Cite this entry
desvestir,  divestir;  devester  
  FEW:  vestire 14,654a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  desvestir 9,366c TL: desvestir 2,1817 DEAF:  vestir (desvestir)  DMF:  dévêtir  TLF:  dévêtir  OED:  devest v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to undress: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Saint L. ont desvestu; Batent lei d’aiglenter tot nu  S Laur ANTS 522
( 1396; MS: s.xivex )  amenez m’amie a chambre, et li deschausez et devestez  Man lang ANTS 42.38
2lawto divest (from): 
( 1308-09 )  le dreit ne fut unqes devesti en sa persone en sa vie (var. ne fut unqes devestu de la persone Alice; ne se devesti unqes de la persone Alice)  YBB Ed II ii 65
( 1312 )  lequel dreit ne puet estre dovestu de nostre persone  YBB Ed II xi 206
( 1388 )  il n’est pas resoun qe cell droit soit devestu par tiel confermacion  YBB 12 Rich II 134

v.refl.

1to undress, take off one’s clothes: 
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  E lui et l’autre sei aveient devestus, issi qu’ils furent nupees et deschevillees  Nov Narr 30
2to divest oneself (of), take off: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  De ses guarnemenz se desvesti e desafublad  Liv Reis1 36
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  jura [...] qe ja ne se devestereit de son haubreke  Fouke ANTS 51.28
♦lawto be divested (from): 
( 1308 )  le dreit se devesti hors de la persone vostre feffour  YBB Ed II i 27
( 1317 )  cele terre [...] ne se put devestir de sa generalté ne vester soulment en un des parceners  YBB Ed II xxi 151

p.p. as a.

1unclothed, naked: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  femmes et enfauntz devestutz  TREVET Cron1 215.18
2lawdivested, devested: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  contractz nuz e devestuz  Mir Just 152
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
desvestir