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eiser1 (1155)

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eiser1 (1155)

eisier,  eisir;  eaisir,  easer,  eeser,  eser,  esere,  esser;  aaiser,  aaisier;  aeiser;  aieiser,  aiesier;  aiser,  aisier,  aisir;  heiser,  heser,  hesser  
  FEW:  adjacens 24,147b Gdf:  aisier 1,197c GdfC: TL: aisier 1,259 DEAF: DMF:  aiser  TLF: OED:  ease v.  MED:  esen v.  DMLBS:  aisiare 56c

v.trans.

1to make comfortable
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Un bel siege pur li aiser  156.158
( 1283 )  Ceste lettre fu escrite a T., ou je ay fet fere une tresbele chapele pur vous eiser quaunt vous i passerez  ii 620
( c.1350; MS: c.1350 )  (men will only be allowed into the nunnery) pur les noneynes ou soer[s] eaysir ou confortir  98
2to refresh
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  De beivre e de mangier ad sun cors aaisié  2157
3to please
( 1302-05 )  [ ...] par la quele novele nous soioms adonques mielz aisez  7
to please, entertain
( MS: c.1330 )  Devaunt la gent se fet heytee Por eyser seignour e meynee Tan ke recoevere  108.12
4to help, assist
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  jeo ne vorreie que vous fussez endetté [...] tant come jeo puisse vous eiser en ascune manere  376
lawto facilitate process (for the court)
( 1316 )  pur easer la court nous grantomus le vieu  Ed II xix 137
to make it convenient for
( 1309 )  Coment q’il vous ad graunté de faire la siwte qe fust due a sa court de P. a sa curt de C. pur vous eyser  Ed II ii 94
5to indulge
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  trop fust jolif de son cors eyser, qar il ne voleit a peyne nul vendredy juner  80
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  de eyser lur corps mettent trop de cure  86
6to furnish, provide (with)
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  tuz les noz somundrai E tuz prest e garniz d’armes les eiserai  4420
7to ease off, away from, disengage
( MS: s.xiiiex )  S’il (=the hawk) prent oisel, eisez le bien desus (l. de sus)  87C

v.intrans.

to take one’s ease
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  (he would give them) pees et trewe [...] pur dormyre et esere a lour volounté demesne  37.33

v.refl.

1to take one’s ease
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Les amies lur amis baisent e, quant leus est, de plus s'aaisent  10184
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  quant les chivalers [...] sunt espars e alez por eus aeiser [...]  141.19
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Aeisunt lur mesmes, mult aveint graunt mester  45
to rest, relax
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  le roy prist sa vay devers Loundres a sa garderobe pur luy esere de sa graunde travaille  150.9
2to relieve oneself (of)
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  E trestuz enboez de tai se fist heser  6047
euph.to defecate
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  truvad i une cave grande u il entrat pur sun ventre purgier  (ms. pur sei aiser)  48
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Son conseil dit et descoveri Ke il se vout aler eiser, Son ventre voleit espurger  2972
3to indulge oneself, live well
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et si li marris est trop grasse De la femme ke bien s’aise [...]  21va
4to benefit oneself
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  il mesmes fut seisi par la fyn a eser e enprover sei del boys avauntdit a sa volunté  142
5to be patient, wait
( 1353 )  [...] touz ceux qi y furent venuz [...] se deveroient eiser tant qe le meskerdi preschein suant  ii 246

p.pr. as a.

helpful
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Encountre toz temptaciouns [...] sunt esaunte soz la grace Deu seinte meditacions enterines  19.19
estre eisant de
to be in a position to
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  del veeir de lui sui or tant desirant E ne pus purchacier ke j’en seie eisant  991

See also:

eise1  eisé 
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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