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errer2 (1113-19)

errer2 (1113-19)

arrer  
  FEW:  errare 3,240b Gdf: GdfC:  errer 2 9,502a TL: errer 1 3,774 DEAF: DMF:  errer 2  TLF:  errer  OED:  err v.  MED:  erren v. 1  DMLBS:  errare 2 796b

v.intrans.

1to make a mistake
( 1181-85; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Ceo ke as pensé, ne[l] fras neint! Antioche, tu en erras  Hosp Rule 37
( 1321 )  l’assise avoit erree par defaute de saver  YBB Ed II xxvi 226
2to entertain mistaken beliefs
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Mais que n'a[l]gez errant De cest petit folant  Comput ANTS 3342
( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii1 )  Hicest penser errer le fait, Errur son corage debote  Trist thomas2 955
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  De verité semblant avez, Mes senz faille vus errez  S Clem ANTS 7046
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Cum joe me aperceu homes plusors Grevement errer en vaye de murs (Latin: graviter errare in via morum), Lur ignorance volai sucur[e]  CATO ANON ANTS 2
3to err, transgress
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  [...] le veir Deu requere Que il facet pardun[s] Par ses seintimes nuns De ço que ad erret Ultre sa volentet  Comput ANTS 607
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  L’arcevesques cure n’aveit De cunsentir si a errer, Tel advoltire a demener  GAIMAR1 1111
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Nous errom contre Dieu e contre son talent  Rom Chev ANTS 5798
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  quant deus prist vengement Del felon pople ki errout folement  Anc Test (B) 87
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  quant vus errez dunc vus amend il (=God)  Mirour Egl 12.44

p.p. as a.

in error, wrong
( 1403-04 )  il estoit erré, en affermant le juggement rendu  Rot Parl1 iii 530
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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