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entente1 (1113-19)

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entent  
  FEW:  intendere 4,742b Gdf:  entente 3,257a / entent 3,257a GdfC:  entente 9,482a TL: entent 3,579 / entente 3,580 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  entente  TLF:  entente  OED:  intent n.  MED:  entente n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1understanding: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Mais si il vait ultre .xxx.- De iceo aez entente-.Xxx. en devez geter,  Comput ANTS 3092
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Par l’entente ait soltilleté Qu’a parfait sens seit tost levé  Salemon 417
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  de autri dit force ne faceoms tant com nous avoms nostre entente bone e seyne  BOZ Cont 159
2 meaning, sense: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  [...] E altre entente i ad: [...]  Comput ANTS 1491
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Altre entente de reiz notons, Kar la doctrine des felons Ki amonestent felonie Nos denotet e senefie  Salemon 857
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  (duties of a lector:) Saumes versiller e lessuns lire E l’entente lettrele dire  Lum Lais ANTS 11074
♦sense, spirit, interpretation: 
( 1338 )  Ceo n’est mye l’averrement d’estatut, mes c’est l’entent d’estatut  YBB 11-12 Ed III 579
( 1340 )  Scard. fuit de tiel entente q’il serroit tenu de luy aquiter  YBB 14-15 Ed III 147
commun entente
lawcommon intendment, the true meaning as fixed by law: 
( 1340 )  Nous ne parloms rienz de demi saunk, mes de comune entente nous les avoms fait fillez a Henri et seorz a B.  YBB 14 Ed III 117
( 1344 )  le pleintiff fut destreint pur les services duez, come comune entente le suppose  YBB 18 Ed III 115
a la meie entente
in my (etc.) opinion: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Sul ne sai pas de mentir l’art, Walter Map reset ben sa part; Nepurquant, a la meie entente, Ne quit pas ke nul de vus mente  Ipom BFR 7187
a l’entente que, en entente que, a tel entente que
on the understanding that: 
( 1304-05 )  vous avez doné e graunté a nostre dit clerk [...] en entente que vous la li frez encrestre autrefoiz  Lett EPW1 39
( 1368 )  Item, fait a remembrer qe Johan de Welburne vient as ditz gardeinz pur estre enfranchisé et fust granté a tiel entent q’il dust venir et aver son shope en Chepe  Goldsmiths 108
( 1396-98; MS: s.xv1 )  (two clerks are being sent) a l’entente que, si vous les (=these matters) semble (l. si vous semblent?) resonables [...] q’ils adonques les pursuent  Lett & Pet 59.14

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