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empendre (s.xiv2)
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empendre (s.xiv2)

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  FEW:  pendere 8,180b Gdf:  empendre 3,57b GdfC: ∅ TL: empendre 3,97 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  empendre  TLF: ∅ OED:  impend v.2  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  impendere 2 1245a

v.impers.

to be incumbent, be a duty: 
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  Vraiment ov taunt d’acord d’amour entre eux sount assemblez qe par nul reson ils ne purront entre eux aver discencion parmi nulle occasion; a touz et a chescun d’eaux est il empenduz (Latin: immo quicquid alicui impenditur, omnibus sibimet impensum esse videtur)  Lichfield 63
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