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envenimer (1121-35)

envenimer (1121-35)

enveninmer  
  FEW:  venenum 14,236b Gdf:  envenimer 3,312b GdfC:  envenimer 9,495a TL: envenimer 3,703 DEAF:  venin (envenimer)  DMF:  envenimer  TLF:  envenimer  OED:  envenom v.  MED:  envenimen v.  DMLBS:  invenerare 1464b

v.trans.

to poison
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Salamandre [...] En pumers solt munter Pumes envenimer  Best ants 1356
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Car cil le volt occire e par boivere envenimer  Rom Chev ANTS 2799
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Le bevre ad dunc al rei duné Ki tut fust envenimé  Brut Royal 5905
( MS: s.xiii1 )  il vos voille envenimer Ou entochier u afoler  Lapid 177.651
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  tost en (=by sin) serreit l’alme engrutee e a mort envenimee  Joshua Sermons i 17
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1315-25 )  En cel cortil u il ala Une serpente envenima La mein Joseph  Enfances 1730

v.refl.

fig.to poison oneself
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  si vus avez envie de autri bien, vus envenimez meismes de bame  Ancren2 6.13

sbst. inf.

poisoning
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1255 )  ne unt pas fet penance de lur homicides ne de lur envenimers (Latin: neque a veneficiis) ne de lur fornications ne de leur larecins  Apoc Prose 46

p.p. as a.

poisoned
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  chose corrosive ou entouché ou envenimé  Mir Just 22
( 1266-1300; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Si tu te dois combatre en chastiel, tu dois avoir [...] dars et saeites enveninmees  Waterford busby 321.S155.12
fig.poisoned, tainted
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  Joie charnele enve[n]imé  Evang1 382
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Valent estoit plus envenimé de heresie Arriane  TREVET Cron1 166.29
baleful
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  cele mort envenimee (J.C.’s)  Ross ANTS 4143
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envenimer