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entrelier (1267)

entrelier (1267)

entrelyer  
  FEW:  ligare 5,328b Gdf:  entrelier 3,289c GdfC: TL: entreliier 3,662 DEAF:  liier (entrelïer)  DMF:  entrelié  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  interligare 1436a

v.trans.

to link, join
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  pus ke (God) pot alme [...] A cors unir e vie doner, E en taunt de amur entrelier, Inpossible a li n'est mie  Lum Lais ANTS 1714
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  (Eve was taken from Adam’s rib) k’en cumpainie E amur fussent entreliez  Lum Lais ANTS 2021
to bind together
( 1314-15 )  se pleinent la communauté d’Engleterre de conspiratours qe sont en chescun cité [...] en Engleterre, entreliez par serment de meintenir et procurer fauses parties encountre ley  Rot Parl1 i 289
( 1321 )  ceuz qe sunt entreliez par serment [...]  YBB Ed II xxvi 26
( 1419 )  Roger [...] et J.R. [...] fauxement entreliez et confederez, machinant la mort [...] J.L.  Rot Parl1 iv 119

v.refl.

to becomes allies, form a confederacy
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  ne voleit pas qe [...] Brutons s’entreliassent par mariages ové les François  TREVET Cron1 169.19
( 1362-65 )  com ascons genz de dit vile ensemblement ové aultres estraunges se entrelyerent [...]  Northumb 250
( 1378 )  se coillent ensemble a grant nombre des gentz armés [...] et soi entrelient par serement et par autre confederacie  Stats ii 10

See also:

entrealier  lier1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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