[empreigner] (s.xii1/3)
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[empreigner] (s.xii1/3)

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[gdw]

[ FEW: 4,601a impraegnare; Gdf: 3,70b empreignier; GdfC: ∅; TL: 3,130 empreignier; DEAF: E 154 empreignier; DMF:  emprégner; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
enpregnier,  enpreigner,  enpreignier,  enpreiner  

The word seems to have been confused with empreindre

v.n.

1to become pregnant: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Ices peres unt pousté Qu’eles se aoverent de lur gré. Del cel la ruseie receivent, De cele enpreingnent e cunceivent Cum fusent vives creature  3032
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  .lxxx. anz vesqui Sarra, Puis conçut ele e enpreigna  516
♦bot.to proliferate, disseminate: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiiiin )  Souz lui (=giant oak) ne peut frugier Arbre ne enpreignier  (C) 378

p.p._as_a.

1med.pregnant: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: c.1200 )  Femme que enfanter ne puisse, Lit la a la senestre quisse Od un fil de laine delgie[e] De berbiz que seit enpreignee  239.1100
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  Femme ky beyt la pudre [...] la (=a galactite) deit [...] pendre a sun col ové fil de leyne de owaille enprins  134
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  les espleez etc. com [...] en appruement de ces vaches (var. (Add1: a.1330) vaches enpreignez)  80 (var.)
empreigné de
1 pregnant with: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  En ce que Nostre Dame oi De l’angele qui li dist issi, Fu elle sempres enpreigniee De la celestial ligniee  855
2bot.infused, made fruitful with: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  E nues creissent de rosee Dunt terre est enpreigné e germee  2786
3emotioninfused, steeped with: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiiex )  [Kar] ço me dist mun quor volagwe Ke jo sui enpreiné de rage  38
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