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effreer (c.1150)

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effreer (c.1150)

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FEW: *exfridare 3,293a / *exfridare 15/ii,91a Gdf: esfreer 3,460c GdfC: esfreer 9,527c TL: esfrëer 3,1051 DEAF: esfreer DMF: effrayer TLF: effrayer OED: effray v. MED: ∅ DMLBS: effraiare 753c

efferer; effraer, effreier, effrer, effroier, efroier; esfreer, esfreier, esfreir, asfraier 563

v.a.1to terrify, frighten, scare ♦ to startle ♦ to take aback
p.pr._as_a.1frightening
p.p._as_a.1frightened, scared 2terrifying

v.a.

1emotionto terrify, frighten, scare:

( c.1150; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) Mes veu ai une avision Que anoit m’ad mult esfreiee 1185

♦emotionto startle:

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Mes la tregrant matire (=of J.C.’s love) effroie mon poere engin qi s’affebloie 3370

♦emotionto take aback:

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Sa beauté (=of J.C. on the Cross), voir, le liz effroie En mai quant matin se desploie 2515

v.absol.

♦emotionto be frightening:

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Toivre dount Rome a sa joie, Le braz seinz Jorge qi effroie, Creté com la mer quant ondoie [...] 1224

v.refl.

s'effreer de

1emotionto take fright at:

( 1155; MS: s.xii^ex ) cil de Rome, s’il les veient, De la multitudine s’esfreient: Sis mil, sis cenz, seisante e sis En une eschiele 12314

( c.1235; MS: c.1235 ) De la voiz se effreent li Sarrazin glutun 1729

♦emotionto be startled by:

( c.1150; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) Li empereres s’esfrea, Ireement lui demanda Qui ceo esteit que la parlout, Qui par nuit esveiller l’osout 511

( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii¹ ) De la fraidur (=of the splashed water) s’esfroie Ysodt 1164

♦emotionto be dismayed by:

( s.xii^3/4; MS: s.xiv² ) Donc dit la dame qe de rien ne s’effroie 7807

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Horn les (=Herland and his men) veit bien venir, si s’en est esfreé 157

p.pr._as_a.

1emotionfrightening:

( 1327 ) les effreauntes noveles […] 129

p.p._as_a.

1 emotion frightened, scared:

( c.1150; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) Mult furent cil espoenté Esbaï et mult esfreié 884

( s.xii^ex; MS: s.xiii^3/3? ) Li quens Eleins vient tut esfreez 1694

2emotionterrifying:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Tost fu la bataille jostee Qui lu jor fu mult effree 4022

( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) cil qui pas ne croient Des peines d’infer q’eles soient Tant dures ne tant esfreiés 17569

estre effreé de

1emotionto be frightened of:

( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 ) En sun cuer en est esfreee E el vis teinte e coluree 1824

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) les diables sont pourus e efferez (var. (BN: s.xivⁱⁿ) effrez) de chacun prudomme 251.32

♦ emotion to be dismayed by:

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Vers France unt la mer passee. La gent en fu tote effreé E grant pour aveient tuit Qu'il ne fussent en fin destruit 2842

estre effreé de (+inf.)

1emotionto be afraid to:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) il serra effreez de fere vus autre feiz mal 83.28

affreer enfreer effrei

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