enbeverer (1155)

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enbeverer (1155)

  FEW:  abbiberare 24,25a Gdf:  embevrer 1 3,30a GdfC: TL: embevrer 3,44 DEAF:  embevrer E108 DMF:  emboivrer  / embreuver  TLF:  embrever  OED: MED: DMLBS:
embevrer;  enbeiverir,  enbeivrer;  enbeverir,  enbevrer;  enboirer,  enboiverer; 
p.p. embeveré,  enbeveri,  enbevré  

v.a.

1to give to drink to
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1300 )  Kant avoie feim, vus me peustes, E kant avoie seif, vus m’enbeverastes  1898
fig.to give to drink to
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  jeo espoir q’elle me eit visitee de sa grace e enboiree (var. (C: s.xivex) enbevree) de les preciouses boires  159
to slake someone’s thirst
( c.1270; MS: s.xivin )  Neis uncore en sa grand seif, Nel poez vous enbeverer. Amer beivir li fu doné  91.713
livestockto water (cattle etc.)
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  ly Greu lur olifanz a l’ewe enbevererent  5778
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  de totes autres communes, si cum de foyer, pescher, enbeverer, chacer  i 395
2to fill (with liquid)
( c.1200; MS: c.1300 )  Le hanap ad descoverclé  (ms. descoverte), Del vin l’a primes enbeivré  574
to imbibe, make absorb (liquid)
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  de cel eawe enbeverez une unce de calce ovorum  381.15
fig.to inundate (with)
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Coment sa (=J.C.’s) grant douzor endure D’estre embevree de leidure  2810
3weaponsto plunge, sink (a blade)
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  l'espee en l'escu cola E si parfund i enbevra Que Cesar ne l'en pout sachier  4064
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Enz en l’escu le brant cula, Desqu’en la bucle l’enbevera  3776

v.absol.

1to give to drink
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  en les chanals des ewes ou l’en doit enboiverer  19.1

v.n.

1to drink
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  li lions e li urs, les tigres e li sengler Vendront a l’avespre[e] a cel[e] ewe abeiverer (var. (P: c.1310) a beverer), Ly dragon e li serpent beiverer e desporter  4892
2to steep, become saturated with liquid
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  pernez leine ové la fume, si en feitez une pelote et la metez enz et la lessez bien enbeverer  214.84

p.p._as_a.

1drunk, inebriated
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 ) Ivere vus voi e abeveré  16629
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1315-25 )  Jo sui ja tant enbeverez Ke ben sui veir eniverez  1889
enbeveré de
1steeped in
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  si doynt le chien enmy la vys de cel ewispilon enbeveri de l’amertez de sa urine  33
2fig.filled, intoxicated with
( MS: s.xiiim )  Tant fu il enbevré del charnel ardur [...]  1208

sbst._inf.

1livestockwatering (of cattle)
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Aucunes nusaunces [...] sicum de encrés de curtilage sour commune, ou de wayour, et de enbeverer as bestes  i 279
abeverer  beverer#1  enbeivre  enbeverour 
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