envesprer (s.xiiiin)
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envesprer (s.xiiiin)

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  FEW:  vesper 14,346b Gdf:  envesprer 3,315a / envesprir 3,315a GdfC: ∅ TL: envesprer 3,709 DEAF:  vespre (envesprer)  / vespre (envesprir)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
envesprir  

v.n.

1 astron.time to become evening, turn into night: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 ) Li solailz ja decline e li jurs envespri  1055

v.impers.

1 astron.time to become evening, night: 
( MS: s.xiiiin ) Cant li jors fut aleiz et il fut envesprit [...]  401
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 ) Un jur quant en chemin ala En une wastine li envespra  6118

p.pr._as_s.

a l'envesprant (del jur)
1 astron.time in the evening, at nightfall: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiim ) il [...] s’an vad en oscur a l’envesprant del jur e as tenebres de la nuit  1326
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  E chascun jur en l’avesprant (var. (W: s.xivin) al envesprant ) Vunt les genz ci sumunant  8381 (var.)

inf._as_s.

1 astron.time evening, nightfall: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 ) A l'envesprer lue l'en [le] jur  1649
avesprer  esvesprer  vesprer 
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