envanir (1171-74)

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envanir (1171-74)

  FEW:  evanescere *3,251a Gdf:  envanir 3,311a / (s')envaner 3,311a GdfC: TL: envaner 3,702 / envanir 3,702 / envanöir 3,702 DEAF:  esvanir (envaner)  / esvanir (envanir)  / esvanoïr (envanoïr)  DMF:  envanouir  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
envaner,  envanoir,  envanouir,  envanuir  

v.a.

1to make disappear, get rid of
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  me volent vers vus mesler e mal tenir E l’amur e la pais desfaire e envanir  4857

v.n.

1to vanish, disappear
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Si vestement erent luisant, Si que l’oscurté envani  266.67
( c.1215; MS: 1330-40 )  Dunc dist tost Jhesu Crist merci E la peine de tut envany  478
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  A taunt envanist cele clareté  59.33
2bot.to wither
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  la flour qe tost envanist  168
3to come to nothing
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  ordina duze successours, mes ceste ordinance envanist, qar sulement quatre ci només occuperent le roialme  83.18
4to become faint, weak, unsteady
( c.1185 )  En som le alme tel cop li done Que tut envanist e estone  4368
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  E de feiblesce envanuirent Qe par destresce soi pasmerent  115684

v.refl.

1to vanish, disappear
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  La clarté [...] petit e petit Doi souztreist e s’envanoit  15720
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  E kaunt il out ço dist, il s’envany de moy  1313
( s.xiii2; MS: 1333-34 )  demons Humeine forme pernoient, Oveqes ceo la nature; Ou femmes firent mixture [...], E tost aprés s'envanerent  22.416
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