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aurner1 (c.1135)
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aurner1 (c.1135)

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adourner;  ahourner,  ahurner;  aorner,  aornier,  aourner;  enurner  
  FEW:  adornare 24,178b Gdf:  aorner 1,309b GdfC: ∅ TL: aorner 2 1,415 DEAF:  aorner 1  / orner (enorner)  DMF:  aorner 2  / adorner 2  TLF:  adorner  OED:  adorn v.  / adorned a.  MED:  adournen v.  DMLBS:  adornare 34b

v.trans.

1decor.to adorn: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Aurné sunt de or e de argent  S Clem ANTS 9197
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Les autres choses (=other than the sacraments of Eucharist etc.) […] Sunt pur doner devociun, E pur ahurner le Deu servise  Lum Lais ANTS 9441
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Jerusalem […] atyffee Cum espuse de sun barun aurnee  Apoc giffard 3939
♦decor.to decorate: 
( 1148-64? ) Icist fist dedier le eglise de Saint Denis de France e si l'aurnad e enrechit  Genealogy France 366
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Adournez la citee trestot environ […] De riches draps d’or  Rom Chev ANTS 3815
♦fig.to adorn, bedeck: 
( 1139-50; MS: s.xiiex ) Sudsexe ad nun l’autre cuntree,D’un evesquié est aurnee  Description Verse 78
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Ki primers Engletere par martire aurnas  S Aub 931
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Le quint jur les ewes e l’eir Ahurnastes […] L’eir d’oseaus, e de pessuns les ewes  Lum Lais ANTS 26
2also_fig.to attire, dress: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Un enfant se est mustré Aourné mult estrangement  boz Seven Poems 112.187
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  ensi est il aornez par dehors de vertues  Sz Med1 118
♦costumeto dress in full robes, in state: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Pur la joie que volt mener S’i fist li reis aorner, Ses vestemenz reals vestid  GAIMAR1 3910
3fig.to endow: 
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  De deus vertus bien aornee L'a Dex a son oes atornee  S Marg wace 455 (A)
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  De la grace de Dé Iert issi aurné  Sibile 488
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii1 )  Cest veil [vus] si adumberat De sa grace e adornerat Cuntre la flamble des pechez  Female Religious 521
( 1410-15; MS: c.1415-20 )  homme de discrecion, ové divers sciencez et honours aornez (Latin: variis scienciis et honoribus redimito)  SAMPS1 428

v.refl.

decor.to adorn oneself: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  se aorna dehors  (ed. de hors) de touz ornemenz  Ancren2 52.8

p.p. as a.

1 decor. decorated: 
( 1397 )  le baston d'or […] enournez ovek le signe d'armes du roy  Rot Parl1 iii 343
♦cosmet.costumejewel.adorned, beautified: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Tornez vostre viwe de femme bien aornee (var. (B: c.1330) cointie)  BOZ Cont 74
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Judith […] trop seint et bele dame bien et deliciousement aourné  TREVET Cron1 76.10
♦ fig. graced, enriched: 
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  (Saint Maragret:) De deus vertus bien aornee  S Marg wace 35.455 (A)
2bot.flowery, abounding in flowers: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivin )  Cil beal champ tant ahourné Parais est appelé  Mir Vge 40.197
♦fig.(of speech) flowery: 
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  Le cofyn de ceo char par dehors cluté Si est de bele promesse parole ahurné  BOZ Char 54

See also:

aurner2  urner 
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