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envanir (1171-74)
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envanir (1171-74)

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envaner,  envanoir,  envanouir,  envanuir  
  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: ∅

v.trans.

to 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  Becket1 4857

v.intrans.

1to vanish, disappear: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Si vestement erent luisant, Si que l’oscurté envani  ADGAR3 266.67
( c.1215; MS: 1330-40 )  Dunc dist tost Jhesu Crist merci E la peine de tut envany  Purg S Pat second anon 478
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  A taunt envanist cele clareté  Fouke ANTS 59.33
2bot.to wither: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  la flour qe tost envanist  BOZ Cont 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  TREVET Cron1 83.18
4to become faint, weak, unsteady: 
( c.1185 )  En som le alme tel cop li done Que tut envanist e estone  Proth ANTS 4368
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  E de feiblesce envanuirent Qe par destresce soi pasmerent  Dial Greg SATF 115684

v.refl.

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