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embelir (s.xii2/4)
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embelir (s.xii2/4)

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ambelir;  enbeler,  enbelir,  enbellir  
  FEW:  bellus 1,320a Gdf:  embellir 3,28c GdfC:  embelir 9,432a TL: embelir 3,42 DEAF:  bel 1 (embelir)  DMF:  embellir  TLF:  embellir  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1cosmet.to beautify, embellish: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: 1272-82 )  Pur enbelir la face  Pop Med 140
♦to enhance: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  De joios queor ki fait flurir Eage d’ome e enbelir, [...]  Salemon 10464
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Pur l’estorie embelir, Que as amanz deive plaisir  Trist thomas2 3136
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  pur les fables embelir En tels choses soelent finir  S Clem ANTS 11236
♦to enhance the fame of: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  (God) Sun precius martyr Edmund D'un autre miracle enbeli  S Edm Life ANTS 2749
♦to add lustre to: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Ly tuns des olifanz le champ enbelisoit  Rom Chev ANTS 2602
♦to heighten, set off: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  les peynturs, Pur enbelir les autres colours, Pur enbelir la face  Rom Chev ANTS 140
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  La secunde corune en grant manere Cum triffure enbelira (var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) enbelera) la premiere  Lum Lais ANTS 13846
2fig.to put a good gloss on: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  asez diseit [...] des philosophies, E queles furent les glosures Ki enbelirent les ordures (=of Classical mythology)  S Clem ANTS 11586
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ele doit estre sanz nule daubeure de embelir le pecché par acune coverture  Ancren2 71.15
3fig.to embroider, fabricate: 
( 1275; MS: c.1282 )  vous avez mut enbeli vostre parole et vostre defens enflori  Plac Cor (C) 19

v.absol.

to please: 
( c.1185 )  M. ben aparceit Que la reine est en grant destreit E que sa parole enbelist  Proth ANTS 3593

v.intrans.

to become more beautiful: 
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  par vus Enbelira li ceuls la sus; En cele seinte compangnie averez la pardurable vie  Waldef BB 19614
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiv )  Unnet la face de sanc de tor, si ostera tutes vices, si embelit munt  Pop Med 137e
♦med.to improve, get better (of wound): 
( c.1185 )  La plaie enbelist ja dedens, Le mal raancle d’entur chet  Proth ANTS 2456
♦meteo.to improve, turn fine: 
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  la nuyt enclarsyst e le temps enbely  Fouke ANTS 7.1
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  (In spring) Le corps de l’homme enducist, le ayr enbelist  Med Trans 352
♦ marit. (of the sea) to become calm: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  li venz chai, Cler tens fist, la mer enbelli  Conception wace 154
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