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enguler (c.1135)
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enguler (c.1135)

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engoler  
  FEW:  gula 4,308b Gdf:  engolé 3,173c / engouler 3,175a GdfC: ∅ TL: engolé 3,394 / engoler 3,395 DEAF:  gole (engoler) G968 DMF:  engouler  TLF:  engouler  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  ingulare 1 1374a

v.trans.

to devour, swallow up: 
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Es vos celui (=the Devil), goule baee; A bien pres l'a tote engolee  S Marg wace 25.330 (A)
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Bos le feri parmi la gule Dessi al col en la meoule, E cil chai, gule baee, Ki la lance aveit engulee  Brut WACE 11802
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Li peril ki Caribde ad nun [...] Ki tut engule e tut devure  S Clem ANTS 14103
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Ne sunt saul k’aver n’engulent, Povres escorchent e defulent  S Edw paris ANTS 3747
♦ to absorb, take in: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  La tere maldist Deus, ki le sanc (=of Abel, killed by Cain) engula  Becket1 1323

p.p. as a.

costume(richly) trimmed: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  Coveitor de martre ne de ermin engulé  GUISCH 1610
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  Li sayserunt par le hermin engulez  Boeve 2582
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