esplaier (1184)

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esplaier (1184)

  FEW:  plicare 9,71a Gdf: GdfC:  esployé 9,546b TL: DEAF: DMF:  esployer  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  explicare 859b
espleer,  espleier,  esplier;  ezplayer  

v.a.

1to unfold, open out
( 1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ore le (=the silken cloth in Thomas’s mother’s dream) espliez; Tut cest purpris [...] Pot l’em covrir  (B) 55
2to display
( 1395-96 )  en acrochant a lui roial poiar, fist (=Robert de Vere) esplaier le baner du roi en sa compaignie  iii 236
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  les comunes de Kent [...] esplayerount deux baners de seint George et lx penouns  139.3
3to deploy, make use of
( 1305 )  prient al roy [...] qe yl vousisent assigner akun prodomme e leal qe porroyt ordeyner e parfere un autel mur de autre part de la ryver e de le murage (=tax levied for building or repairing town walls) de meme la vile qe yl unt eu e levé ces set auns e qe est en nul leu ezplayé  i 477

v.n.

1to fare
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  a lur encontrer espleirent malement, Car pris sont tuit [...]  326.1108

p.p._as_a.

1unfolded, spread open (?)
( 1397 )  un lit vert [...] ové un blu pale de chamelet embroudez ovesque un pot d’or ové .i. lilie esplaiez ové pluseurs flours d’argent de Cipreun lit vert [...] ové un blu pale de chamelet embroudez ovesque un pot d’or ové .i. lilie esplaiez ové pluseurs flours d’argent de Cipre  290
applier  emploier  plier 
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