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enviz (c.1136-65)
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enviz (c.1136-65)

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anviz;  enviis,  envis  (ennuiz (l. enwiz)  Ancren2 147.21,  envitz  Folies (A) 38,  enwitz  TREVET Cron1 85.27)  
  FEW:  invitus 4,803b Gdf:  envis 1 3,318b GdfC: ∅ TL: enviz 3,724 DEAF:  enviz  DMF:  envis 1  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  invite 1470c

adv.

unwillingly: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Enviz ou volentiers servirent  Rom de Rou wace ii 43.4202
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiim )  Pur le sunge qu’ot veu si i alot enviz  Horn (O) 4665
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  A l’empereur ad congié pris, Mais il lui dona mult enviz  Gui War 2940
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Kaunt le frere, tut feyst enviz, Le ledenga enmy sun vys  S Fran ANTS 2421
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  De venir enviz  (ed. enuiz) (var. (BN: s.xivin) en nuiz) a mostier  Ancren2 110.8
♦with difficulty: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Astronomiens [...], Des meillurs truvriez enviz  Josaphaz2 184
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Enviz troverez et l’un et l’el, Servir le secle et Deu del cel  Mir N-D 127.51
a enviz
unwillingly: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  A tels ert grant mestier de criz, Kar il l’o[ei]ent a enviz  Salemon 1080
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Nostre treu nus retolez, U a enviz le nus rendez  Brut WACE 6210
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Li dolent a enviz i vait  S Modw 6361
aveir enviz
to find irksome: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Li abbes ad commandé [...] Ke de la cordele seit delié le cors, E cil le funt tantost, ne le unt pas envis  Mir N-D 23.135
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