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
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
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