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espardre (1113-19)
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espardre (1113-19)

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  FEW:  spargere 12,133a Gdf:  espardre 3,509c GdfC: ∅ TL: espardre 3,1148 DEAF:  espardre  DMF:  espardre  TLF: ∅ OED:  esparse v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  spargere 3142b

Some of the forms can also be interpreted as belonging to espartir.

v.trans.

to spread: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Li soleilz [...] Ses raiz gete e espart  Comput ANTS 1224

p.p. as a.

1spread out: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  de tant come cinc sens sont plus espars foreinement [...]  Ancren2 196.8
♦dispersed: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quant les chivalers [...] sunt espars e alez por eus aeiser  vegetius2 141.19
♦scattered, spangled: 
( 1300; MS: s.xiv1 )  Fesse vaire ot el rouge escu De trois flours de lis de or espars  Eight Rolls 110.389
♦wild, dishevelled: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  [...] ki ait ses crins espars et ses mains estendues  Lapid 291
2fig. eaten up, consumed: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: c.1275 )  je vus defend de par Deu ke vus ne auget en ignorance de vostre juvente ne en fornicacion en la quele je sui espardu (Latin: fornicatio in qua effusus sum) e maculai le lit mun pere Jacob  Suidas 613
3far away: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  puis ke il est ore par autri si tres loinz espars e espanduz  Ancren2 193.16
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