enlever (s.xii3/4)

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enlever (s.xii3/4)

[ FEW: 5,277a levare; Gdf: 3,196b enlever; GdfC: 9,471b enlever; TL: 3,443 enlever; DEAF: ; DMF:  enlever; TLF:  enlever; OED:  enleve v.; MED:  enleved ppl.; DMLBS: ]
eslever,  alever,  allever  

v.a.

1 to remove, take off
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E si le (=bandage) leissez jesque a plusurs jorz [...] Puis [...] eslevez le strictorie e ben le fomentez de ewe  i 75
to remove, wash away
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  l’ewe del baptisterie […] esleve suillures de pecché  i 8
to take away, alleviate
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Tant cum lur espeir plus aleve Le present mal que tant lur greve  256
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  si garist de melancholie et del mal c’on ne puet alener (l. alever)  295.11
to cancel, pay off
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ou delaient ses dettes allever  158
( c.1340; MS: s.xiv2 )  j’ai fait tiele diligence d’alever voz dettes qe je lez ay touz levez  318.27
to carry away
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  grace si est dun Ki [...] la (=the soul) refurme [...] E la leve (var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) enlieve) a la haute vie  5332

p.p._as_a.

1engraved
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Sotil[le] fut l’entaille des overes enlevees, A bestes e a veignes e as flurs enversees  4312
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  Et touz les murs par dedeinz sont covertz d’or et d’argent en plate, et en celles plates y a histoires et batailles des chivalerz enleveez  345
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