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desafier (s.xiiex)
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desafier (s.xiiex)

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desaffier;  dissafier  
  FEW:  fidare 3,501a Gdf:  desafier 2,532a GdfC: ∅ TL: desafïer 2,1457 DEAF:  fïer (desafïer)  DMF:  desaffier  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to challenge: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 )  Le un l’autre desaffient, Qe entre eus nul amur ne etent  Amis ANTS 587
2to assume, imagine (wrongly): 
( MS: c.1330 )  Si ele juwe et sovent rye [...] Li home quyde et desafie Qe la famme ver luy plye  BIBB ROTH Poems 105.13

v.refl.

to distrust: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Cil pecche en seint esperit Quant de sa bunté se desafit  Lum Lais ANTS 3224
( 1323-25 )  Et pur Dieu, ne vous voillez pas desaffier de ceaux qe se affient en vous  St Sard 168

See also:

defier1 
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.
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