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envenimer (1121-35)

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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

enveninmer

v.a.

1to poison:

( 1121-35; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) Salamandre [...] En pumers solt munter Pumes envenimer 1356

( s.xii^3/4; MS: s.xiv² ) Car cil le volt occire e par boivere envenimer 2799

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) Le bevre ad dunc al rei duné Ki tut fust envenimé 5905

( MS: s.xiii¹ ) il vos voille envenimer Ou entochier u afoler 177.651

( s.xiii^4/4; MS: 1315-25 ) En cel cortil u il ala Une serpente envenima La mein Joseph 1730

♦ fig. to poison, corrupt, subvert:

( s.xiii¹; MS: s.xiii^m ) tost en (=by sin) serreit l’alme engrutee e a mort envenimee i 17

( MS: c.1300 ) E! Deu Pere, idunc ke frum, Ke tuz sumes envenimez De granz pechiez envolupez? 151v

v.refl.

1fig.to poison oneself:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) si vus avez envie de autri bien, vus envenimez meismes de bame 6.13

inf._as_s.

1poisoning:

( s.xiii^2/4; 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 46

p.p._as_a.

1poisoned:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: s.xiv^1/3 ) chose corrosive ou entouché ou envenimé 22

( 1266-1300; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) Si tu te dois combatre en chastiel, tu dois avoir [...] dars et saeites enveninmees 321.S155.12

( MS: c.1300 ) E dunc li offrirent un vin porri envenimé, ke il fust le plus tost mort 57r

♦fig.poisoned, corrupted, subverted:

( s.xiii^m; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Joie charnele enve[n]imé 382

( c.1334; MS: s.xiv^m ) Valent estoit plus envenimé de heresie Arriane 166.29

♦baleful:

( 1273-82; MS: s.xiv^ex ) cele mort envenimee (J.C.’s) 4143

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