embaudir (c.1275)

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embaudir (c.1275)

  FEW:  *bald 15/i,31a Gdf:  embaudir 1 3,28a GdfC: TL: DEAF:  baut (embaudir)  DMF:  embaudir 1  TLF: OED:  embold v.  / embolden v.  MED:  embolden v.  DMLBS:
enbauder,  enbaudir,  enbaulder  

v.a.

1to embolden, encourage
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  dona grant hardiesce as Bugres, et les enbaudi mult a guerrer les Gregeis  266.12
2to support, strengthen
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le confort de ceste sentence Les enbaudi en lur obedyence  7984

v.refl.

1to take heart, be cheered
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  De nul ben ke pechur enprent A fere pur Deu ne peut blandyr A sey memes, ne enbaudyr De penaunce  2516

p.p._as_a.

1emboldened
( 1447 )  enemies du roy [...] sont grandement embaudez, confortés  v 138
baudir  abaudir  embaudissement  esbaudir 
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