1to complain:
(
1165-80?;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
par ceo acreist la dolur, Dunt plusur amant mult emplainent
240.37
♦
law
to complain, bring a complaint:
(
1303
)
qe les ditz abbé e covent n’eyent encheson de returner autrefoiz a nous enpleinant
iv 516
1lawto complain, bring a complaint:
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
De lui s’enplainstrent [...] A la pape cil clerc romain
1482
(
1292-93
)
Estephene [...] s’enpleynt a les Justices [...] de Richard
48
(
1303
)
(no freeman shall be obliged to come to the hall-moot, unless he wishes) epleindre
(l. empleindre) sei a ascun vileyne
iii 63
(
1315
)
Robert [...] porta un replegiare vers Johan [...] et s’enpleint qe atort avoient pris ses avers
Ed II xix 23
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