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amollir (s.xii1)
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amollir (s.xii1)

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amollier,  amoller;  amolir,  amolier;  emmollir,  emmolir,  enmoillir;  esmoillir,  esmollir,  esmolir  
  FEW:  mollis 6/iii,54a Gdf:  amolier 2 1,271c / emmolir 3,47b / esmolir 3,498b GdfC:  amolir 8,108c TL: amolir 1,358 / amoliier 1,358 / esmolir 3,1127 DEAF:  mol (amolier)  / mol (amolir)  / mol (enmolier)  / mol (enmollir)  / mol (esmolir)  DMF:  amollir  / amollier 1  / esmolir  / emmolir  TLF:  amollir  OED:  amollish v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  immollire 1233a

v.trans.

1also_fig.to soften: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  des choses que amollissent les ners et les relaxent  A-N Med i 179
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  La bere tuche Jesu Crist Quant il le dur quor amollist  Mirur1 154rb40
( c.1270; MS: s.xivin )  Car me facez grace aver Ke enmoillir puise mun quer  Plaintes Vge 102.1035
( MS: s.xiii-s.xiv )  N’i (=in the soul) a duresce ke n’enmolist, Ne amertume ke n’enducist  Lyric 176.79
♦culin.to soften, make tender: 
( s.xiv1/3 )  Poumes ammolee. Vyn, eofs, flur triee de forment, poumes goboneez par desus, sucre pur abatre la force de le vyn  Culinary Colls 867.9.1
2fig.to assuage, calm: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  li crual penser […] De pieté sont esmolliz  Dial Greg SATF 10959

v.intrans.

1to soften: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Si l’emflure dunkes ne amolie ne asiet  Joshua Sermons ii 22
2to be, become damp, wet: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  la langue est ecriliant e glasçant. Car ele ueut (var. (BN: s.xivin) veet) en miste liu e enmoille  (ed. en moille) e escrille avant  Ancren2 184.25

v.refl.

fig.to unbend, yield: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  S’ele ne s’amolist umblement Et fait tot son comandement  Corset ANTS 65

p.p. as a.

fig.soft: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Amoliees sunt les paroles de lui sur olie  Oxf Ps ANTS 74.54.24
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