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enboeler (1190-93)

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FEW: botellus 1,464a Gdf: emboelé 3,33b GdfC: ∅ TL: emböeler 3,53 DEAF: boël 1 (emboeler) DMF: embouler TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

emboeler; enbouelier, enboweler, enbueler, enbuelir, enbuyler, anboueler

v.a.

1to disembowel, eviscerate:

( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Lancent gavelocs enpennez, Dunt il unt mil enboueliez, Ke tut tresperce[nt] al primer vol 314

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Quant il out tut le champ vencu, N'en ad un sui vif retenu Que il nen ait esboelé (var. (T: s.xiii^4/4) emboelé ) U od s'espee decolé 3409 (var.)

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) (the unicorn, having surrendered itself to a maiden) Ne prent garde de morir Quant uns armé l’anbouele 248

2 culin. to gut, cut open (a fish) and remove its internal organs:

( MS: s.xiii² ) Dicitur exsquamo gloss: (D) eskerder nec non exentero gloss: (D) enbueler pisces ii 32

v.refl.

1to disembowel oneself:

( c.1334; MS: s.xiv^m ) de l’agu s’enbowela meismes 130.28

p.p._as_a.

1 culin. (of fish) gutted, cut open and with the internal organs removed:

( MS: s.xiii ) Pisces exenterati gloss: enbuelis cum salsa coquentur i 183.67 and ii 112.67

( MS: s.xiii² ) exenterati: (C) enbuylez, eskerdez ii 70.67

aboé aboeler boele boeler esboeler

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