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[ FEW: 4,624a incingere; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,448c enceindre; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF: enceindre 1; TLF: enceindre 1; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]

ençaindre, enseindre, enzeindre; esceindre

v.a.

1to surround, encircle:

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiii^ex ) 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.xiii^ex; 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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