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enverser1 (s.xii1/3)

enverser1 (s.xii1/3)

 
[ FEW: 4,791b inversus; Gdf: 3,314b enverser; GdfC: ; TL: 3,708 enverser; DEAF:  envers (enverser); DMF:  enverser; TLF: ; OED:  inverse v.; MED: ; DMLBS: 1466a inversare /1466b invertere ]

v.trans.

1to knock over, down
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Meint bliaut de samit i fu le jur deciré, Meint dancel abatu, meint cheval enversé  Rom Chev ANTS 133
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Maint home ont le jor en versé, Maint boen cheval i ont tué  Rom de Rou wace ii 201.8476
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  issi la sustienent ke lé boffees au diable [...] ne la (=the Church) enversent e trebuchent  Ancren2 231.28
ship. to overturn, make capsize
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Wages [...] En mult poi d'ure nés traversent, Neient, enfundrent e enversent  Brut WACE 6052
2 to turn upside down
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Samuel un vaissel a uelie traist avant, sur le chief Saul enversa  Liv Reis1 18
to invert
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et lors s’aforce li malades de chier, si que li boiaus soit enversez  A-N Med i 225
3to turn over (on one’s back)
( s.xii1/3; MS: c.1200 )  (when a loadstone is put under her pillow) S’ele ad puterie menee, Ignelepas si ert enversee  Lapid 249.1394
( MS: s.xiiiex )  La damoisele acole e beise: enmi sun lit […] [L’ad couchee e tote enversee] (=line added by the editor)  Fabliaux 32.123

v.intrans.

to fall over
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Mais al puier e al ramper En veissez maint enverser  Brut WACE 4634

p.p. as a.

1overturned, inverted
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  (the moon) quant est enversee Dunc ert pluie aprestee  Comput ANTS 2607
( MS: s.xivm )  Johel [...] descriva [...] l’arche de cel enversee el cenacle de Syon  S Jer 3va
2carved on the back (?)
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Sotil[le] fut l’entaille des overes enlevees, A bestes e a veignes e as flurs enversees  Rom Chev ANTS 4313
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