1fig.to wipe out, bring to an end:
(
1190-93;
MS: s.xiv1
)
depreerent Deu …] Ke il preist d’els garde […] E enqueisast le orgoil le rei
4458
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
) Beau fiz, si tu poez eschaper Legierement d'un encumbrer, Mes k'il te deie aukes custer, Delivre tei sanz demurer! Petit damage mult suvent Esquasse
(var.
(D: s.xiii3/4) Enquasse
) grant encumbrement
220 (var.)
(
1364-65
) pur desbatz destrure et enquasier [...] et pur la diste diversité a tut jours enquaser et tiele ambiguité en tut temps remuwer
76 and 77
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