escoiller (1174-75)
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escoiller (1174-75)

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  FEW:  coleus 2/ii,889a Gdf:  escoillier 3,411b GdfC: ∅ TL: escoillier 3,938 DEAF:  coil (escoillier)  DMF:  écouiller  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  escuilliare 802a
escoiler,  escoilier;  escuiler,  escuillier;  esculer,  eschuier i 425.408  

v.a.

1to castrate, emasculate: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Le mustier Saint Laurenz fud le jor violé, Treis prestres el mustier par force escuillié  1702
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) De l’abbé Equice, comment il sei vit escoiller de l’angle (Latin: quomodo ab angelo eunuchizari videbatur)  p. 16
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Nous les prenons a nostre volenté. [...] Et si sont escoilliez touz, Car li home et les fames de la terre sont li plus chaux de tout le monde  353.D251

p.p._as_a.

1 castrated, gelded: 
( MS: c.1250 )  equus cantarus: cheval escuilé  i 417
( MS: s.xiii )  spado: esculee (quia testiculos perdiderat)  i 31
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiii2 ) De leit se garde e formage [...] e de tute maneres [d]e frut e de chars, fors de bestes escoilees  1114.rubr.
2impotent: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  (it can be averred that) le baroun fu escoillé ou en prisoun […] par deus aunz […] avaunt qe cel enfant fu neez  ii 16

p.p._as_s.

1castrate, eunuch: 
( MS: s.xiiim )  les escoillés ke pas nel pount faire  6748
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