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enorter (1121-25)

enorter (1121-25)

enhorter  
  FEW:  inhortare 4,693a Gdf:  enorter 3,214c GdfC: TL: enorter 3,480 DEAF:  enorter  DMF:  enhorter  TLF: OED:  enhort v.  MED:  enhorten v.  DMLBS:  inhortari 1378b

v.trans.

to exhort, admonish
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  E le offrande q'um li portout, Tut (='even though') as povres il l'enhortout, Jo celoue en mes burses  S Brend mup 1274
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Mult enortat de bien faire Tut le pueple  S Clem ANTS 4739
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Les sons enorte de l’espleiter  S Modw 1254
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Veritez e resun [...] Nus dit ben e aporte, Testemoigne e enorte, Ke primes  (ms. primes est) en ce livre Devum le mund descrivre  Div Mun 42
to incite
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  menteurs e losengiers Qui tant distrent e enhorterent Que li frere s'entremeslerent  Brut WACE 2331
to urge on
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Puis regarde le bref, manance i trove forte Cum Porrus l’envie et de bataille enorte  Rom Chev ANTS 5299
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Sun desir de l’aler l’enorte, Pitié li dit que s’en resorte  S Edw barking 1842

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exorter 
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