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encurver (s.xii1)
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encurver (s.xii1)

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incurver  
  FEW:  incurvare 4,634b Gdf:  encurver 3,126a GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  incurver  TLF:  incurver  OED:  incurve v.  MED:  incurven v.  DMLBS:  incurvare 1318b

v.trans.

1to bend, bow down: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Seient oscuré li oil d’els [...] le dos d’els tute veie encurvé  Oxf Ps ANTS 82.68.28
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Chaitif sui faiz, e encurvez sui desque en fin  Oxf Ps ANTS 64.37.6
2to humble, abase: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Il sunt encurvet (Latin: incurvati sunt) e chairent  Camb Ps 30.XIX.8
♦to cast down: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Esdrece, Sire, devant vien la face de lui, encurve lui (Latin: incurva eum)  Camb Ps 22.XVI.13

p.p. as a.

bowed down, bent: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  lur perres sunt encurvé (Latin: patres eorum incurvati sunt) sicume arcs nient profitables  Camb Ps 143.LXXVII.57
♦curved: 
( MS: 1155-60 )  Incurvé sunt (Latin: Incurvati sunt) li tertre del mont des eires de la parmenabletet de lui  Camb Ps 270.9

p.p. as s.

person bowed down, humbled: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Li Sires esdreced les encurved (Latin: incurvatos)  Camb Ps 258.CXLIV.8
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