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esquasser (s.xii3/4)
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esquasser (s.xii3/4)

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esquacer,  esquacher;  esquaisier,  esquaisser;  esquescher,  esquesser,  esquessir;  esqasser;  equager,  etsquager (l. eçsquager);  aquasser  (enquaser  Newnham 77,  enquasier  Newnham 76)  
  FEW:  quassare 2/ii,1434a Gdf:  escasser 1 3,357c GdfC: ∅ TL: escasser 3,821 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  escasser  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to shatter, smash: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Fiert le Thebien qe tut le double esquace  Rom Chev ANTS 2182
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  le fort escu Graunder ad fendu e esquassé (var. (D: s.xii2) quassé)  Boeve (B) 1226
♦to crush: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  ne fut pas doute Qe n’esquachast la celle toute [...] La roche tantost com cheist  Dial Greg SATF 10700
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Es poinz tint une hache danesche, Sarazins ocist e esquesche  Gui War 3584
♦to crush, pound: 
( MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Pernez cumin e feites aukes esquacher el morter  Med Recs 219.123
♦also_fig.to destroy: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  ele […] est morte. […] ma joie est tute aquassee  Pet Plet ANTS 1196
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  les gines le roi porumus adresser Pur abatre meisons et murs aquasser  Longespee 76
♦fig.to crush, wipe out: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Abatre les mahomeries, Esquasser totes herisies  S Greg 1254
2to obliterate: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  sovent les vertuz foreines Esquassent molt les dedenzeines  Dial Greg SATF 1828
( MS: s.xiii )  cancellaverit: esquache  TLL ii 85
♦to cancel, erase: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  par defaute de date est le bref abatable [...] et ausi par vice [...] de brusure, cum si le bref soit rout (var. (M: s.xivin) esquaché) ou dampné  BRITT i 314

v.intrans.

1to shatter, split: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  li kachevels (l. kachenels?) al chair li esquacha e li cerviaux li espandi  Liv Reis1 11
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  une espee porterez; Coment que avienge de cel vostre tinel Que s’il veolt fraindre ne esquasser, Que al costé i puissez recovrer  Ch Guill 2843
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Sur la test G. Lé grosse [sic] peres [...] aval ruerent. La teste esquassa morteaument  S Fran ANTS 6949
2to fall with a crash: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Aprés sa mere se launça hors Par une fenestre si ke le cors Esquassa a terre  S Fran ANTS 6825

See also:

squasser 
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