1to revere, hold dear:
(
1165-80?;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Biuen
[
sic] deit l’en la dame servir E honurer e
encherir
100.162
♦
to cherish:
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Mult m’amerent e
encherirent
588
(
c.1240;
MS: c.1300
)
Si l’ad pus amé et servie E honuré et
encherie
263.320
(
1377
)
le noble chivalrie del roialme estoit bien nurriz,
encherriz, honorés
iii 5
2merch.to raise the price of:
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
les forstallours ausi, qi
acherisent (var. (C: s.xiv1/3) acressent) les foers de vitayle vendable
i 193
(
1293
)
marchaunz estranges [...] tiegnent lour marchandise desvenduez tant q’il unt outrajousement les biens
encherrez
i 119
(
1362
)
Pur ce qe vins [..] sont
encherrez et mis a tres grant pris
ii 270
(
1327-77
)
[…] dount les marchés de tote manyre de vitaille sunt
enchiris
ii 404
♦
to render (a place) more expensive (to live in):
(
1321
)
qe nul ne soit si hardi de forstaller [...] par qei la ville soit
encherie
Ed II xxvi 12
(
1323-25
)
le pais est si
encheri devers nous par defaute de vitailles
103
1merch.(of price, etc.) to rise, be increased:
(
1314-15
)
certeins pris des boefs [...] les queus se
encherisent
i 295
1cherished, beloved:
(
1165-80?;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Marie [...] mere Deu mult
encherie
138.122
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