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esparpiller (s.xii1)
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esparpiller (s.xii1)

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asparpiller;  esparpailer,  esparpailler;  esparpeiler,  esparpeiller;  esparpeler,  esparpeller;  esparpiler,  esparpillier;  esparplier,  esparplir  (aparpailir)  
  FEW:  palare 7,486b Gdf:  esparpeillier 3,512c GdfC: ∅ TL: esparpaillier 3,1155 DEAF:  esparpaillier  DMF:  éparpiller  TLF:  éparpiller  OED:  sparple v.  MED:  sparplen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to scatter: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Chi dune neif sicume laine, nublece sicume cendre esparpeilled (Latin: Qui dat nivem sicut lanam nebulam sicut cinerem spargit)  Oxf Ps ANTS 131.147.5
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  E veit Alisandre les soens esparpliez  Rom Chev ANTS 902
( MS: s.xiii )  substernat: esparpilet, junchet  TLL ii 92
( MS: s.xiii )  sub[s]ternat: esparpli  TLL ii 111
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  meus vaut de faire plusors compaignies ke esparpeiler les chivalers  vegetius2 100.17
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  debrisa Poz de tere ke esparpila En meneu peces  boz Seven Poems 110.156
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  toutz les niefs furount esparpilez et en poynt d’estre confunduz  Anon Chr1 117.10
♦to scatter, strew: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) esparpeilet sunt tuit li mien os  Oxf Ps ANTS 53.21.14
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  ‘Tur, fait il, tant estes bele! [...] Car fuissez a tere acraventee, E a la tere esparpeillee!’  Gui War 432
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  F[emme] blé sye et fenz esparplie (M.E. [...] muk spredith)  Nominale 117
♦to spread abroad, broadcast: 
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Car emvie les bons faiz ceille (=hides), Les males ovres esparpeille  Trist thomas2 811
2 to squander: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: c.1300? )  (the abbot) sa aboie tut ad esparpeilé, Kar mult dunad a ses parenz de teres e de prez  Burch1 525
3to distract: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  si vostre pensee seit par corporel ymaginacions diversement esparpillee  Mirour Egl 80.8

v.refl.

to disperse, scatter: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  estevus cil se furent esparpeilled e jurent partut mangianz e bevanz  Liv Reis1 58
♦to spread: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  le enfermeté de lour favele se espant e s’esparpelle (var. (BN: s.xivin) se esparpleie)  Ancren2 199.32
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