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aloper (1278)
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aloper (1278)

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alloper,  eloper,  esloper  (alaper  Sel Bills Eyre 31)  
  FEW:  lôpen *16,480b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  aloper  / loper (esloper)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  elope v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  alopare 69b

v.trans.

1to steal: 
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  La pie seit muscer Kant ke peut aloper En un privé lu  Lyric 224.68
2lawto abduct: 
( 1278 )  come Johanne de B., par F. de S. […] feust allopee  Rot Parl1 i 1
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ceux qi robbent […] ou allopent noneins  Mir Just 28
♦fig.to entice away: 
( 1370 )  Item qe nul ne fortreisast ne alopast autri apprentiz, sergant ne lowys qe del mester fust  Goldsmiths 128

v.intrans.

1to run away: 
( 1312; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ma bele file Douce Pieté Hors de tere est alopé; Ne sai ou est  Plainte Am 668
2lawto elope, run away from one’s husband: 
( 1337 )  En bref de dower pledé fut q’il (=ele) alopa de soun baroun en tiel ville en tiel counté, nient recounseil (l. recounseilé) en la vie soun baroun  YBB 11-12 Ed III 287

v.refl.

lawto elope, run away from one’s husband: 
( 1309 )  el se alopa de son baroun et demorra ové son avouter  YBB Ed II ii 145

sbst. inf.

law elopement of a married woman: 
( 1345 )  Dowere, ou aloper fuit pledé en barre saunz estre recounseillé  YBB 19 Ed III 139

p.p. as s.

laweloper, one who ran away from her husband: 
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Mes pur aquere le quer de cele alopé, Par sey vout dereygnyr sun dreit en li clamé  Rom 13 507 (VI)
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