1to efface, blot out, remove:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) En une generaciun seit esfaced li nums de lui
110.108.12
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Vendrunt li paisant de ceste terre e enffacerunt tun seintime nun
ii 26
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
nepurquant ses mauz efface Ta grant douzor
2947
♦
to deface, destroy:
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
n’esfaça pas les vergiers
(=forest shrines) es mons u l’en soloit au diable sacrefier
204
2to disfigure, mar the face or features of:
(
1194-99;
MS: s.xiii2
) Com il aveient depechiees Les ymagenes e enfacees
5231
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
Sil batit tant a desmesure [...]; Nis face e front jesqu’as oreilles Li esfaçot com a merveilles
964
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
Tu
(=J. C. on Cross) moers, e quant ta douce face La mort descolore et efface [...]
2254
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effacer (s.xii1)