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encovenir (s.xiii1)

encovenir (s.xiii1)

encuvenir  
  FEW:  convenire 2/ii,1128a Gdf:  enconvenir 3,116a GdfC: TL: encovenir 3,261 DEAF: DMF:  enconvenir  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

v.impers.

to be necessary
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  perdi la sue force [...] e si l’encuvint morir  Joshua Sermons ii 31
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Vous ne devez ublier K'il encovent aver grenchouns (M.E. lathyes)  BIBB ROTH (G) 969

See also:

convenir 
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