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enfuir2 (1120-40)

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

enfuir2 (1120-40)

enfoir;  enfodir;  enfoueir,  enfouer,  enfouir,  enfouyer;  enfower,  enfowyr  
  FEW:  fodere 3,664b Gdf: GdfC:  enfoir 9,463b TL: enföir 2 3,344 DEAF: DMF:  enfouir  TLF:  enfouir  OED: MED: DMLBS:

v.trans.

1to bury
( MS: 1120-40 )  Desur[e] terre nel pourent mais tenir: Voilent o non, sil laissent enfodir  597
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  A Rependune l’enfuirent  1919
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Li mortel pecchié [...] de sodomie se fornist par enfoir les peccheours tut vifs [...]  135
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  Ceste seinte croiz avoient les Juys enfowy en terre dessouz la roche del mont de Calvarie  102
2to dig into
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  la beche fouir covient mon confessour et me tenir desuz le piee, enfouir en ma char si come en terre  114
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  si ascum a moy ovesque un fer ardant enfoweroit le purnelle de l’oille (Latin: si quis michi pupillam oculi ferro ignito transfoderet), graunt dolour j’avroy  60

v.intrans.

to dig
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  fetes enfouyer erraument! La desous porras trover Une ewe curraunt  212

sbst. inf.

burial
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  (Alexander) Les barons enporte e fet ensevelir. Mult en ot grant dolur quant vint a l’enfuir  1213

See also:

enfoeure  enfoiour 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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