enmegrir (c.1136-37)

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enmegrir (c.1136-37)

  FEW:  macer 6/i,7b Gdf:  enmegrir 3,202a GdfC:  emmaigrir 9,436b TL: enmaigrir 3,450 DEAF:  maigre (enmaigrir)  DMF:  emmaigrir  / emmaigrer  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
enmegrer,  enmegrier,  enmegrir  

v.a.

1to make thin, lean
( c.1300?; MS: s.xivm )  Pur enmegrer ceus que sunt mout crasse  1048

v.n.

1to be lean, lose weight, become thin
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  (Sinners should learn the relevant remedies for sin:) Sicum encuntre lecherie Jeuner ke (=in order that) le char enmegrie  10378
( MS: 1272-82 )  Cel mal ad oysel [...] ki soudeinement enmegrist  221D
( MS: s.xiiiex )  maceo: enmegrir  ii 165
( MS: s.xiiiex )  macero (l. maceo): enmegrir  ii 165
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  e trop enmegrist e son groyn par famine enneyrsist  56
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) Q'il ait un soul repast perdu, Du quoy le corps poet enmegrer  20880

v.refl.

1to grow thin
( MS: s.xiiim ) Jo m’engressi de mes delices, e vus vus enmegristes par travailz e p[ar] junes  268
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Un beivre qui bien l’usera, Sachés bien si s’enmegra  164.476

p.p._as_a.

1emaciated, lean
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Quant veit sa femme enpalie E veit la feble e enmegrie [...]  2644
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 ) Qu'espelt que tu es si dehaitez e si enmegriz?  81
( 1304 )  le tenant ne poet aver la suffisaunce, par quey qe les bestis le tenant sunt enmegris  32-33 Ed I 235
( 1312; MS: s.xiv1 ) in prison Il me donnent a manger Bele promesse sanz rien doner, Dunt su enmegris  462
amegrir  megrir 
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