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enginer (s.xii1/3)
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enginer (s.xii1/3)

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engigner,  engignier,  engingner,  enginier;  enginner,  enginnier;  engyneer  (egigner  Ancren2 173.12,  agiger (l. agigner)  Suidas 614,  ajener  TLL ii 3.4)  
  FEW:  ingenium 4,686a Gdf:  engignier 2 3,170a GdfC: ∅ TL: engignier 1 3,385 DEAF:  engin (engignier 1)  DMF:  engigner  TLF: ∅ OED:  engine v.  MED:  enginen v.  DMLBS:  ingeniare 1367c

v.trans.

1to devise, construct: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (a lake:) Jo ne sai se huem l’enginna U nature l’apareilla  Brut WACE 9553
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Veit mettre les quareles e joindre le morter, [...] Envoucer les arches e les viz enginer  Rom Chev ANTS 7290
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Mult deit hair l’engignur ki cel (=a catapult) lur engigna  FANT OUP 1248
2to work out, understand: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Pecha deusse l’achesun Aveir engignee e trovee  Ipom BFR 9285
3to contrive, plot: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Ewart le dota e hai [...] por maint mal qu’il engigna  Rom de Rou wace ii 88.5422
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1275 )  Sathan ma mort enginnat  S Eust anon 527
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  malice [ceo] est purparler u enginner mal a sun presme  Pecchez 208vb
4to deceive, trick: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Qui la laveure bevrad [...] Ne ja venim ne li nuirat Ne ja enginet ne serra  Lapid 232.868
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Diable le quidet engingner  S Gile1 380
( c.1185 )  Jonas, ad me dunc cil felons Pentalis issi enginné?  Proth ANTS 757
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Car l’une me covient trair E decevre e enginnier  Trist thomas2 516
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  [...] Pensant e enginiant coment peust enginier povre gent  S Edm Life ANTS 3574
( s.xiiiex; MS: c.1300? )  Alfled la reine engine taunt [dolerusement] Ke ele sun barun tuat par graunt traisement  Burch1 95
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  mes ore me vodrez engyner. Par Dieu! noun frés  Fouke ANTS 55.35
♦to trick, seduce: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Del fruit primerement La femele (=elephant) en prent Pur sun male enginner, E si l’en fait manger  Best ants 1431
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  yl la voleyt a sa volenté aver, ou par promesse ou par don engyner, ou par force ravyr  Fouke ANTS 35.38
♦to trick by casting a spell on: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: c.1200 )  se leires la (=loadstone) puet aveir [...] Il en purra gent enginner, Lur maisuns rober e bruiser  Lapid 249.1417
5 to put a spell, work magic on: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Merlin ensemble od els irreit (=to Ireland) Ki les pieres (=of Stonehenge) enginnereit  Brut WACE 8092
enginer de
1to do, trick out of: 
( 1310 )  pur lui enginer de sa terre  YBB Ed II iii 193
2to contrive to free, free by a trick: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Quide [...] Qu’il engingnast de la prisun Le cunte T.  Gui War 6027
enginer que
to bring about by deceit: 
( 1334 )  lequel R. compassaunt d’avoir mesmes les dites terres, enginna [qe] le dit J. a ly fist sermentz sur livre q’il ly fefferent de sa terre  Rot Parl1 ii 82

v.intrans.

to act cunningly: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Tant enginnat qu’il le prist, Ne l’ad desfait ne ne l’ocist  GAIMAR1 6167
♦to deceive, trick: 
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  femmes seivent enginner  MARIE Fables 198.54
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Ta femme quant ele plure [...] de enginer se purpens E fraude fer  CATO ANON ANTS 744

v.refl.

to ensnare oneself: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  justise les fait dampner [...] Cil ne sunt perdu solement Ki s’enginnent sifaitement  Salemon 946

p.pr. as a.

wily, tricky: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiim )  riches hom e mananz, E de cunseil [...] artus e enginnanz  Horn (O) 53

p.p. as a.

1deceived: 
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  E jura grant serement qe, nul fust tant hardy de sey mover, il le detrenchereit en menuz pieces. P. e ces compaignouns se tindrent engyneez  Fouke ANTS 31.27
2disappointed: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  beaus amis, mut par sui engigné Ke taunt poi vus ai fait  Horn 3775
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