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enrievre (s.xiiiin)

enrievre (s.xiiiin)

enrevere,  enrevre;  enrivere,  enrewre  (arevre  Pet Plet 1356 (var. O))  
  FEW:  irreverens 4,815b Gdf:  enrievre 3,221a GdfC: TL: enrievre 3,497 DEAF:  enrievre  DMF:  enrievre  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

a.

1unruly, refractory
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Des esteilles ki males sunt; Celes meimes funt hume enrievre Ki funt hume aver la fievre  S Clem ANTS 10591
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  tant ert fel, Enrievres, soutais e rebel  Dial Greg SATF 1520
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Un mere dit: ‘Ço est la fevre.’ - ‘Veire’, dist Gui, ‘trop est enrevres’  Gui War 490
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  pur l’enrevre pueple asist Deus par Moysen dure lei  Joshua Sermons i 14
med.(of an ailment) stubborn, resistant (to treatment)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  La cotidiane fevre Mult est male e enrevre  Pop Med 286.174
( MS: c.1300 )  La violete od la flur Ke essuage la dolur E la vetoine ke tout fevere Ke en plaie sout estre enrevre  Pop Med 306.65
orn.zool.with ruffled, disarranged feathers
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  corteisement se peyst e queyntement se proynt e sovent espeluke. Si n’est pas enrenee (l. enrevre)  Rom 13 536 (L)
2malicious
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  L’autre ki le soen (=husband) est un chevre, L’espus a l’autre est felun e enrevre  Pet Plet ANTS 1400
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  li deables orguillus Ki est enreveres e ennuius  Apoc giffard 1535

See also:

rievre 
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