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escumenger (s.xii1)
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The form eskemenger is a cross reference to the following entry:

escumenger (s.xii1)

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acomenger,  aschumenger,  ascumenger;  encumenger;  escomeger,  escomenger,  escommunier,  escomunier;  escumager,  escumanger,  escumeger,  escumeinger,  escumengier,  escumengir,  escumenier,  escumenjer,  escumiger,  escumigier,  escumigner,  escumijer,  escuminer,  escuminier,  escummenier,  escumunger,  escumungier,  escumunier;  eskemenger,  eskuminger;  excomager,  excomanger,  excomeger,  excomenger,  excumenger,  exkumeger  (ecumeger,  eschumeiner  Eluc 26.101,  escunnger  YBB Ed II viii 167 ),
(p.p. scumeié (l. escumenié)  Lett AF 37)  
  FEW:  excommunicare 3,279b Gdf:  escomengier 1 3,416a GdfC: ∅ TL: escomengier 2 3,952 DEAF:  escomengier  / escomeniier  DMF:  escommenger 2  TLF: ∅ OED:  excommenge v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  excommunicare 835a

The omission of the nasal bar by scribes or editors produces deviant forms such as escomeger, escumeger, etc.

v.trans.

1eccl.to excommunicate, banish from the church: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  qui rien de l’autrui prendreit, Escumengié estre deveit  Rom de Rou wace ii 86.5370
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  cil sunt escumenié De l’apostoile e del clergié  Rom de Rou wace ii 152.7213
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Dunc seie jo maldit, Escumengié de prestre, huniz e descunfit  FANT OUP 592
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Si fut por iceste acheison Par nom del pape escumungié  S Greg 2411
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  une bulle par laquele il (=the pope) escomenja le rei  Reis Engl1 62
♦to curse, anathematize: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  E sa alme escomenget la septme (=seventh of things in a list) Tant par est vile  Salemon 4295
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  ‘Taisez, dame,’ dit Brengain, mult estes ore de male maine. U apreistes tel mester? Mult savez ben escuminger! (ms. escumiger)’  Fol Trist ANTS 594
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  Quant Balaam voleit aler Le pople Deu a escumenger  S Edm Pass ANTS 986
♦to execrate: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Tute jurn les meies paroles escommuniowent (Latin: Verba mea execrabantur)  Oxf Ps ANTS 74.55.5
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  des encuntrediz pechiez, Ki de Deu sunt escumengiez  ADGAR3 283.286
2to repudiate, abandon: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  n’escumunierai le mien testament  Oxf Ps ANTS 96.88.34
( MS: s.xiv2 )  jeo escomengeai tote ma qoyntise  Bible hackett 197ra
3to defile, desecrate: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  tu escuminias (Latin: profanasti) en terre la curune de lui  Camb Ps 164.LXXXVIII.40
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  Ki eschumeinet seintes choses, ne deit estre od eles  Eluc 26.101

p.p. as a.

1 eccl. excommunicated: 
( 1340-41 ) denuncioms et publioms excumengeez touz yceux qi sount contenuz en les articles ensuauntz  GRANDISSON ii 943
2accursed, damnable: 
( MS: s.xiii )  scelestis: escumengez  TLL i 127
( 1343-50 )  si tost come le saunk hors sailist vint une autre escomengee sorceresse  Cron Lond1 3.13
♦hated, detested: 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex )  Kar deguerpi en la lei fu e revilé, E maleite la tindrent e escumegé  Chant Chanz 1285
♦impious: 
( MS: s.xii2 )  prophanus: manful, escuminé  Aelfric Gloss 55.197

p.p. as s.

1eccl.excommunicate: 
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 ) et al derrein jugement en estreitte vengance, sicum l’escumunied Damnedeu tuz dis parmainnet  Ely Arch 270.70
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Ou sunt dunc li escumengé, Li fol crestien renoié  S Laur ANTS 558
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  escumengé est autaunt a dire cum home qe est hors de commune pur lepre de l’alme  BRITT i 322
2scoundrel: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E nous lessom regner iceaux escomengez Par qui cist forein regne est tuit exillez  Rom Chev ANTS 6335
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  ‘Malveis’, ceo dist (=Simon Magus to St. Peter), ‘escumengié, Mult estes plein de malveistié’  S Clem ANTS 3758
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