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enromancer (c.1170)

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enromancer (c.1170)

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[ FEW: 10,453a romanice; Gdf: 3,222c enromancier; GdfC: ∅; TL: 3,502 enromancier; DEAF: romanz (*); DMF: enromancer; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]

enramauncer, enromauncer

v.a.

1to translate into the vernacular:

( s.xiii^2/4; MS: s.xiii² ) Les ewangelies i verrez Mult proprement enromancez 72

( s.xiii^m; MS: s.xiii^m ) le mielz de l’essampleire ai enromancé 152

( 1260; MS: s.xiv^3/3 ) Ces sunt les brefs e les contes enromancees solum la ley englesche confermees 153

( s.xiii^ex; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) bon enseignement [...] de Latin translaté En commun langage [...]. Trestut en sen et verité Ki ici troveretz enramauncé (var. (H A O) romancé) (S) 1.1.10

p.p._as_a.

1knowing French, educated in French:

( c.1213; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) Si jeo en cest romanz mespreng[e], Bien sai grant hardement enpreng[e], Jeo ke ne sui guere lettré Et povrement enromancé 38

2eloquent, talkative:

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) [...] dirra ses parentez Sil volez demaunder: bien est enromauncez 2320

romancer romanz

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