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endeble (c.1136-65)
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endeble (c.1136-65)

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endeible,  endieble  (endebbla)  
  FEW:  debilis 3,22a Gdf:  endeble 3,127c GdfC: ∅ TL: endeble 3,276 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  endeble  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a.

weak, feeble: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ci recovent a esclarier Ço k’il (=Solomon) li rovet esdrescer (=raise up) Come se fust endeble chose  Salemon 3319
( MS: s.xii2 ) debilis: lama, endebbla  Aelfric Gloss 41.62
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Pale de vis, de cors endeble  Trist thomas2 1973
♦weak, thin: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  La chace fu plener[e] e feble ly fuirs, Et feble (var. (C: s.xiiim) Endeble) la defense  Rom Chev ANTS 3011
♦infirm: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Uns des fiz Jonathas i est remes si est endieble des piez  Liv Reis1 70
♦morally weak: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Qui tant sui veins, enferms, endeible, E encombré de mes pecchiez  Dial Greg SATF 104206

See also:

endebler 
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