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escumenger (c.1136-65)

The form eskumynger is a cross reference to the following entry:

escumenger (c.1136-65)

escomanger,  escomeger,  escomenger,  escomengier,  escomenjer,  escommonger;  escumager,  escumanger,  escumeger,  escumeinger,  escumengier,  escumengir,  escumenjer,  escumiger,  escumigier,  escumigner,  escumijer,  escumunger,  escumungier;  eskemenger,  eskuminger;  excomager,  excomanger,  excomeger,  excomenger,  excumenger,  exkumeger  (acomenger YBB Ed II xii aschumerger (l. aschume[n]ger) Burch1 166 ascumeger,  ecumeger  TLL ii 7 encumenger GAIMAR1 6336 escumeier  Lett AF 37 escunnger  YBB Ed II viii 167)  
  FEW:  excommunicare 3,279b Gdf:  escomengier 1 3,416a GdfC:  escomenier 9,518a TL: escomengier 2 3,952 / escomeniier 3,954 DEAF:  escomengier  / escomeniier  DMF:  escommenger 2  / excommunier  TLF:  excommunier  OED:  excommenge v.  / excommune v.  MED: DMLBS:  excommunicare 835a

The omission of the nasal bar by scribes or editors produces 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
( 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
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm ) [...] et escomenga touz contresteantz ceste estatut  TREVET Cron1 249.7
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, curse
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  des encuntrediz pechiez, Ki de Deu sunt escumengiez  ADGAR3 283.286
2to repudiate, abandon
( MS: s.xiv2 )  jeo escomengeai tote ma qoyntise  Bible hackett 197ra

p.p. as a.

1 eccl. excommunicated, banished from the church
( 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

p.p. as s.

1eccl.excommunicated person
( 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
2profane, impious person
( 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
( 1255-60; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) as pourus e as mescreauns, as ascumengez  (ms. ascumegez) e as homicides e as fornicaturs e as venimauns e as idolatres e as tuz menturs  Apoc Trinity ants 94.901

See also:

escumengable  escumenge  escumengement  escumengément  escumunation  escumuner  escumunicatiun  escumuniement 
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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