1
to wash, cleanse:
(
c.1300?;
MS: s.xivm
)
Pur la bouche eslever. Quissez lé roses en eisil, si tenez l'ewe en vostre bouche
176
♦
fig.to wash, cleanse:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
Jesus Crist tot eslevat Quant le pechié del monde ostad
11645
(
s.xiiex;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Et l'eve ki vint de sun
(=J.C.'s) lez Nus ad blanchiz et eslavez
175
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Il duna nofs comandemenz Pur eslaver nos quors sullenz
1857
2fig.to wash away, efface, erase:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) Seient eslavé del livre des vivanz
82.68.33
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
sulunc la multitudine de tes merciz esleve
(Latin: dele) les meies felunies
88.L.1
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
ki escut la pudre de vains pensers e eslieve suillures de pecchiez
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eslaver (s.xii1)