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

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

v.a.

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

p.p._as_a.

1bowed down, bent: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  lur perres sunt encurvé (Latin: patres eorum incurvati sunt) sicume arcs nient profitables  143.LXXVII.57
♦curved: 
( MS: 1155-60 )  Incurvé sunt (Latin: Incurvati sunt) li tertre del mont des eires de la parmenabletet de lui  270.9

p.p._as_s.

1person bowed down, humbled: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Li Sires esdreced les encurved (Latin: incurvatos)  258.CXLIV.8
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