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acoucher (1160-74)

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The form encucher is a cross reference to the following entry:

acoucher (1160-74)

acocher,  acochier,  achocher;  acucher,  aculcher,  aculchier;  encocher,  encucher  
  FEW:  collocare 2/ii,908b Gdf:  acolchier 1,63c / encouchier 3,120a GdfC:  acouchier 8,27c TL: acouchier 1,120 / encouchier 3,258 DEAF:  couchier (acouchier)  / couchier (encouchier)  DMF:  accoucher  / encoucher  TLF:  accoucher  OED: MED: DMLBS:

v.trans.

to make lie together
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1400 )  le diable […] les acoucha […] Et eles conceurent  (E) 49va

v.intrans.

1to lie down
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  et se mist a genoils, acochant a la tere  79.13
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Tel fais (=burden) deit l'em porter e enbracier Qu'il ne l'estoce par desoz a oschier (l. aoschier) (var. (P2: s.xiii4/4) acochier; (L: c.1300) abocheir)  792 (var.)
2to go to bed
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  li reis [...] A Roem vint, si acocha  ii 224.9097
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E aculchad e jut encuntre lit e mangier ne volt  165
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiiim )  La nuit quant vous encocherez  250 (var. B19)
to take to one’s (sick) bed
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  un chivalers […] achocha malades  212

v.refl.

to go to bed
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Del lit u il s’est aculchied ne leverat  173
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Les filles Loth, quant unt perdu lur mere, Querent del vin, si enivererent lur pere. L’einzné s’en vet aprés sun pere cucher, Un fiz engendre […] A l’autre nuit s’acucha la puisnee, Amon engendre dunt fu mult lee  (E) 592
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