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
133
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
issi la sustienent ke lé boffees au diable [...] ne la
(=the Church) enversent e trebuchent
231.28
♦
to turn upside down:
(
s.xii2;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Samuel un vaissel a uelie traist avant, sur le chief Saul enversa
18
2to 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
249.1394
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
La damoisele acole e beise: enmi sun lit […] [L’ad couchee e tote enversee]
=line added by the editor
32.123
3to invert:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Et lors s’aforce li malades de chier, si que li boiaus soit enversez
i 225
1overturned, inverted:
(
1113-19;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
(the moon) quant est enversee Dunc ert pluie aprestee
2607
(
MS: s.xivm
)
Johel [...] descriva [...] l’arche de cel enversee el cenacle de Syon
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
4313
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enverser1 (s.xii1/3)