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belif (s.xiiex)
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belif (s.xiiex)

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beslif; 
f. belive,  bilive   (velif)  
  FEW:  *link 16,467a / obliquus 7,270a Gdf:  belif 1,616b GdfC: ∅ TL: beslic 1,941 DEAF:  beslic  DMF:  belinc  TLF: ∅ OED:  belef | belif adv.  / embelif adv. and a.  MED:  embelif a.  DMLBS: ∅

s.

en belif
1obliquely, sideways: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Costeant veit (=la nef) et en belif Dreit cum cheval ke est restif  S Osith 949
( 1216-25; MS: 1307-15 )  ( (Belin made four royal roads)) […] e les autres deus voies en velif (l. belif) la terre  Reis Britt1 6.25
( MS: s.xv )  Pernez un lyvere de gyngyver ben paré [...] le trenchez en belif  Five Med MSS 127.E115
♦herald.bendwise: 
( MS: c.1334 )  Le senatour de Rome port de goules a cinq lettres d’or, […], il les porte en belif en ses armes  Ashmole Roll m 1
♦in crescent formation: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  ne se combatent mie adresceement com en champ, mes en belif (Latin: incurvus) a semblance de la lune  vegetius2 154.23
2awry, wrong: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Quant nostre vie veons en tel belif Ja l’endemain n’en serroms plus pensif  Rom rom 239
masclure en belif
masclure

a.

line belive
lawcollateral line: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  nul ne est receivable a successioun qe ert trové en nul degree en line belive [...] taunt cum acun est trové en vie en la dreite line descendaunt  BRITT ii 320

See also:

beslei 
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