1efficacy, virtue, potency, power to produce an effect:
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xvii
)
Ce ne tu mie el temps Virgile ne Orace Ne el temps Alixandre ne Cesar ne Estace, Lores avoit largesce, vertu et efficace
i 3.16
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
basme mis dedens le garde de corrupcion et le fait estre estre de plus grant efficace
i 238
(
s.xiiim?;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Mes sacez qui il
(=sirop) ert meins divisif et ara mendre efficace, ja soit ce qu’il soit plus dous
ii 25.13
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
En la devant dite partie [...] avoms nus dit queles forces e queles efficaces confession ad envers le diable
54.8
(
s.xiv1;
MS: s.xivm
)
(excess of wine) destructe la vertue generative et sa semence difrouge que eole n’ad poynt de efficace d’engendrer
12.96
♦
astron.effect, influence:
(
s.xiv1;
MS: s.xivm
)
la constellation en quele l’em nest si ad grand efficace sur cely qi nest en luy
12.97
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