empleindre (1165-80 (?))
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

Search Results

Your search results will appear here.

Entry Log

Clear

The form enpleindre is a cross reference to the following entry:

empleindre (1165-80 (?))

Cite this entry
  FEW:  plangere 9,17a Gdf:  emplaindre 3,63c GdfC: ∅ TL: emplaindre 3,113 DEAF:  plaindre (emplaindre)  DMF:  emplaindre  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
emplaindre;  enplaindre,  epleindre  

v.n.

1to complain: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  par ceo acreist la dolur, Dunt plusur amant mult emplainent  240.37
♦ law to complain, bring a complaint: 
( 1303 )  qe les ditz abbé e covent n’eyent encheson de returner autrefoiz a nous enpleinant  iv 516

v.refl.

1lawto complain, bring a complaint: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  De lui s’enplainstrent [...] A la pape cil clerc romain  1482
( 1292-93 )  Estephene [...] s’enpleynt a les Justices [...] de Richard  48
( 1303 )  (no freeman shall be obliged to come to the hall-moot, unless he wishes) epleindre (l. empleindre) sei a ascun vileyne  iii 63
( 1315 )  Robert [...] porta un replegiare vers Johan [...] et s’enpleint qe atort avoient pris ses avers  Ed II xix 23
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
enpleindre