enticer (c.1136-65)
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enticer (c.1136-65)

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  FEW:  kis- 2/ii,711a Gdf:  enticier 3,264c GdfC: ∅ TL: enticier 3,598 DEAF:  enticier  DMF:  enticer  TLF: ∅ OED:  entice v.  MED:  enticen v.  DMLBS: ∅
enticher,  enticier,  entiser,  entiszer  

v.a.

1to incite, goad, coax: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Si l’entiça la pauteniere. Tut tens le traist a heresie  301.16
( c.1185 )  A cascun mot le haste e prie E dit e l’entice sovent: ‘ [...] ’  3585
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  li diable [...] sa (=Vortimer’s) marastre tant entiça Ke par venim l’empusuna  4909
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  Le une de l’autre encerche sovent le quer (var. (O: s.xivm) entice le quor), Si ascune priveté puisse alocher  279 (var.)
2 to encourage, induce: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  cil ki maynt en drait[e] fai Ne dait doter nuli desrai [...] Ne l’engaine ki mal entice  859

v.absol.

1to incite, goad, coax: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Mult se peine, mult entice Pur faire genz chair e[n] vice  10683
enticer a
1to incite, prompt to: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Mais boche de felons entiche Toz tens a mal  6129
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  [...] Car touz atisent a bienfaiz  927
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  temptacion de enticer (var. teicer; ticer) la dame a consent de pecché  214.26
♦to tempt to take: 
( MS: c.1330 )  La femme (=Eve) [...] son baron entisza A la pomme  104.4
enticer de (+inf.), que (+subclause)
1to induce, persuade to: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Sathanas [...] entichad David que il feist anumbrer ces de Israel  106
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  par la grace de gré dunee Est franche volenté repelee De mal fere sur tutte rien E enticee de fere bien  5444
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  En aprés les tempta e les entiça ke eles ne se confessassent point  107.7
atiser  enticement  ticer 
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