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escopir (s.xii1/3)
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The form eschoper is a cross reference to the following entry:

escopir (s.xii1/3)

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escoper,  escouper;  eschoper;  oscuper  
  FEW:  cracher 21,321b Gdf:  escoper 1 3,422c / escopir 1 3,423a GdfC: ∅ TL: escoper 3,963 / escopir 3,964 DEAF:  escopir  DMF:  escopir 1  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to spit upon: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Pur hunir crestiene fei Escopi l’orent el visage  ADGAR3 146.129
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  Al vis l’escoupent par despit  Evang1 189
( MS: s.xiii2 )  despuat: eschopet  TLL ii 3
( MS: 1272-82 )  (J.C.) Despoillés futes sovent [...] E vostre glorieuse face escoupé e bufeté  Ave J-C 4
♦to spit out: 
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  El saint vis ke verrunt Venim escoperunt  Sibile 312
( MS: s.xiiim )  Icist frere, par sa maladie, tussi, E flume de sa buche par tant escopi  Vitas 514
( MS: s.xv )  vinegre vaut mult a seux qe oscupent sanc  Five Med MSS 172.E629

v.intrans.

to spit: 
( MS: s.xiii )  spuo: escouper  Gloss Garland 173
( MS: s.xiii )  excreat: escoper  Gloss Garland 167
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Ausi ad il tusser (M.E. kouwe) e escouper (M.E. spete), Ruper (M.E. bolke), vomer (M.E. spywe) e esternuer (M.E. snese)  BIBB ROTH (G) 1093
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Escopissez (var. (BN: s.xivin) escopez) sour le mastin en mi liu de sa barbe  Ancren2 15.19

v. absol.

to spit out: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Mais ewe freide i ad mester Pur ceste pere (which one is to hold in one's mouth) refreider. Soventefeiz en deit supeir E escopir e resupeir, Kar autrement eschaufereit La pere e sa buche ardreit  Lapid 227.692

sbst. inf.

spit, spittle: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  La flor de la virge vergete (= J.C.) Vils escopirs vilment degiete  Ross ANTS 792
escopir fors
to spit out: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  il crache e escopit tot hors l’espece  Ancren2 187.21
♦fig.to spit out, utter: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  Ki cele ordure (=foul language) escopist hors en les orilles de nule recluse, l’en deust sa bouche estoppir  Ancren1 68.19
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