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estoire1 (s.xii1/4)
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estoire1 (s.xii1/4)

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astoire;  estorie,  estorye,  estoyre,  esture;  hestoire;  histoir,  histoire,  historie,  hystoire,  hystoyre;  istoire,  istorie  
  FEW:  historia 4,439a Gdf:  histoire 4,478a GdfC:  estoire 9,563a TL: estoire 1 3,1402 DEAF:  istoire I470 DMF:  histoire  TLF:  histoire  OED:  history n.  / story n.  MED:  histori(e n.  / stori(e n.  DMLBS:  historia 1160c / storia 2 3206b

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literaturestory: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  Icesta istorie est amiable grace e suverain[e] consulaciun a cascun memorie spiritel  S Alexis1 prol.
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Pur essample issi ai fait Pur l’estorie embelir Que as amanz deive plaisir  Trist thomas2 3136
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Somom l’estoire as anciens En icel tens ke [...]  S Audree1 37
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ore escotez un estorie  boz Seven Poems 85.1
♦ decor. depiction of a story: 
( s.xii1/4; MS: c.1120 ) Altra cose est aurier la painture e altra cose est par le historie de la painture aprendre  S Greg Lett 299
( 1423 )  i autre pece d’Arras qe comence l’estorie de sir Percyvall  Rot Parl1 iv 230
♦literaturehistory: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  I comence l’estorie des Englés solum la translacion Maistre Geffrei Gaimar  GAIMAR1 1rubr
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Oez veraie estoire, que Deu vus beneie  FANT OUP 1
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Chançon de geste e d’estoire  Mirur2 5
♦literaturechronicle, historical account: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Les hystoires fist aporter E fist cerchier e fist pruver Que ço que Kalewadres dit De la visiun  Brut WACE 14809
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Sis nuns est en estoire e escrit remembrable  S Aub 1042
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  De Gui ore vus en dirrums, Cum en l’estorie trové l’avoms  Gui War 7858
♦Bibl.theol.text, book (of Proverbs): 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  A l’estoire voil revertir E l’escrit Salemon oir  Salemon 11299
a estoires
archit.decor.historiated (of window): 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Entaileez sunt les peres E a estoires (l. aestoirés?) les vereres  S Edw paris ANTS 2303
Estoire Tripartite
tripartite
veir estoire
theol. scripture, the Bible: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) Bien creit qu'ileoc (=in paradise) ad grant glorie, Si cum nus dit veir estorie  S Brend mup 54

See also:

estoriablement  estorialement  storie  storiere 
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