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enveisure (1150-70)
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enveisure (1150-70)

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emveisure;  envaisure,  enveisur;  envisure;  envoiseure,  envoisure  (aveysure  TLL ii 164,  esveisure,  eveisure  Anc Test (B) 13065 ),
(pl. enveisurus  New Ross 147)  
  FEW:  *invitiare 4,803a Gdf:  envoiseure 3,320b GdfC: ∅ TL: envoisëure 3,730 DEAF:  envoisier (envoiseüre)  DMF:  envoisure  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1emotionjoy, gladness: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Car joie e envoisure est doel as envius  Rom Chev ANTS 19
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  (J.C.) Li rois de tote envoiseure  Ross ANTS 132
2fun, lightheartedness: 
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  E puis vunt el palés mangier, E demeinnent trestut le jur En emveisure e en baldur  Trist thomas2 1887
( MS: c.1200 )  repairer a grant laesce Et a grant joie senz tristesce En lur pais a envaisure  Amadas2 (G2) 102
♦ merry-making: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Un jur avint que Samson s’enveisa [...]. A l’enveisure survint une meschine [...]  Anc Test (B) 4644
♦amusing tale: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  por vus dedure Vus cunterai un esveisure De un veillard e de un enfant  Pet Plet ANTS 2
♦jesting, joke, trick: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ci n’ad mestier folie, Ne gab, ne l’enveisure, ne nule lecherie  FANT OUP 177
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Il unt mandé Samson desqu’al paleis Pur fere de lui un enveisure (var. (B: s.xiii3/4) envisure) e jugleis  Anc Test (E) 5167
3emotionpleasure: 
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Dites li qu’ore li suvenge Des emveisures, des deduiz Qu’eumes jadis jors e nuiz  Trist thomas2 2484
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Ne quiert deduit n’enveisure Fors la bataille forte e dure  Waldef BB 4293
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1300 )  Celes enveisures U sunt? Peines dures En unt li amant  Serm Royal 1375
4lasciviousness: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  En lur asemblee n’ad delit ne l’enveisure. Naturelment le font en entente d’engendrure  Rom Chev ANTS C 142
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Lecherie, enveisure et legertez  Mir N-D 147.39
5allurement, enticement: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  illicebris: (C) enveysurs  TLL ii 69
6delight, beautiful object: 
( c.1192; MS: c.1275 )  [...] acun present De beaublés e d’enveisure  Pr Jean3 12.Y79
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  La veist l’um, qui volt, les enveisures E les merveilles qui sunt as entaillures  Anc Test (E) 13066
par enveisure
emotionwith a glad heart, joyfully: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Par geu le fis e enveisure  S Osith 992
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Si ne le lerrum par dreiture, Nus li treperum par enveisure E compaignie li frum  Mir N-D 114.50
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Tut le (=the pain of love) preng par enveysure  Rom 15 (Dd.10.31) 250
♦in a lighthearted manner, playfully: 
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Samsun respunt uncore par enveisure  Anc Test (E) 5082
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