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enferté (s.xii1/3)
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enferté (s.xii1/3)

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enfertet  
  FEW:  infirmus *4,670a Gdf:  enferté 3,147a GdfC: ∅ TL: enfermeté (enferté) 3,330 DEAF:  enferm (enferté)  DMF:  enferté  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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infirmity, weakness: 
( MS: 1213 )  Les enfertez des cors, tant feble e lable  Veni Cr SATF 15
♦pathol.illness, disease: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  L’ivers n’en fait raencune, Ne d’enfertet n’i mort une  S Brend mup 422
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Nule manere d’enferté N’avrat en sun cors poesté  Lapid 250.1441
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  De l’enferté k’il out einceis Est le malade en pez levez  S Gile1 138
chair en enferté
pathol. to fall ill, become unwell: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Li reis chai en enferté; Malade fud de fievre ague  Brut WACE 14194

See also:

enfermeté1 
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