enceindre (1212)
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enceindre (1212)

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  FEW:  incingere 4,624a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  enceindre 9,448c TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  enceindre 1  TLF:  enceindre 1  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
ençaindre,  enseindre,  enzeindre,  esceindre  265  

v.a.

1to surround, encircle: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  l’une (=agate) est neyre et enceinte de blaunches veines  124
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  (the English) asparpillez sunt el la (l. en la) pleinne [...] Li ducs pense k’il les e[n]ceinne  4602
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  ki ne est enceint e enclos du mur de silence  183.28
♦to enclose: 
( 1303 )  la place fut enseint  30-1 Ed I 327
♦to wrap itself round: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  (the dragon) de sa coue enceint Mes piez, e mes genoilz estreint  18283
♦fig.to embrace: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Boer nasquit qui savoir ençaint  56

v.refl.

1to gird oneself: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  De une coreie vous ceintez. Ne di pas ‘vous enceintez’, Kar femme est par home enceinte  189
ceindre#1  aceindre 
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