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empoverir (s.xiiex)
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empoverir (s.xiiex)

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empoverer,  empourir,  empouvrir,  empovrir;  enpoverer,  enpoverir,  enpoverrir,  enpovrer;  enporir,  enpovrir  
  FEW:  pauper 8,58b Gdf:  empovrir 3,70a GdfC: ∅ TL: empoverir 3,129 DEAF:  povre (empovrir)  DMF:  empauvrir  TLF: ∅ OED:  impover v.  MED:  empoveren v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

statusto impoverish, make poor: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  pauperare .i. enpoverir  Gloss Sidon 147.129
( 1326-27 )  par quoi la commune des countees ad esté grantement chargé et enpoverie  Stats i 256 vii
( 1405; MS: s.xv1 )  dount jeo sieu grauntement empoverez  Lett & Pet 364.16
( 1427 )  ils sount grantement enpoveriz  Cal Anc Pet 187

v.intrans.

statusto impoverish, fall into poverty: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Muabletez veons molt avenir, [...] Povre monter e le riche enpovrir  Rom rom 79

v.refl.

statusto impoverish, fall into poverty: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiim )  Pur acheison de li (=Thais) sovent s’enpovrerent (var. s’enpovrirent; enpoverirent)  S Thaïs 6

See also:

apoverir  espoverir  poveri  povre1 
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