esracher (s.xii1)

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esracher (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  eradicare 3,233b Gdf:  esrachier 1 3,559c GdfC: TL: esrachier 2 3,1276 DEAF:  esrachier  DMF:  esracher 1  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  eradicare 791c
esracer,  esrachier,  esracier,  essracher,  estacher (l. esracher)  

v.a.

1 to uproot, pull out by the roots
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  E racine de dreiturer Ne pot unkes mal esracier  7192
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  cume espines que l’um ne pot nue main esracier  104
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Car si tresgrant mesters est, l’en estachera (l. esrachera) hors de la terre les truncs ki sunt enracinez  27.16
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) la cretine, Que [...] Les champs semez ensi suronde, Sique n'y laist grain ne racine, Ainz tout esrache et desracine  8201
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 ) je l’ay essraché et essarté toutz lez ortites putes et les mavaisses herbes  17.15
to tear out, epilate (hair)
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  esrachiez les peilez e frotez les paupiers  i 54.xxviii
fig. to uproot, extirpate, eradicate
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Trestotes les males asises Qui eroient ja as eglises Par tot lu mond enracinees […] Esracer prist e esgrapir  1286
2to pull, drag away from a place
( c.1185 )  Cum il le tirent e esracent, Od gros bastuns avant le chacent  7135
esracher de
1 to tear off, remove forecfully from
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Le healme esraça del chief  4225
to snatch, steal from
( s.xii4/4; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Se l’Emimi l’ume enginna, Qu’il le fruit del fust esraça (=in Garden of Eden)  992
2to banish, expel, drive out from
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  esracerat tei e forsmeterat tei de tabernacle  72.51.5
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  esraced e osted Jonathan de sa maisun  41
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) Car mesme Dieu ce commanda, Q'om de son temple esrachera, De son autier le plus divin, Un tiel feloun =one who has committed murder, s'il y serra  4952
aracher  enracher  racher 
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