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estrangler (1121-35)

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[ FEW: 12,286b strangulare; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,565c estrangler; TL: 3,1443 estrangler; DEAF: ∅; DMF: étrangler; TLF: étrangler; OED: strangle v.; MED: stranglen v.; DMLBS: 3208c strangulare ]

estraungler, estranler

v.a.

1also_fig.to strangle:

( s.xii²; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) Asael d’un lach estrangla le roi 189

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) cil courteour Que estranglent sainte Eglise 85

( MS: s.xiii^ex ) jugulo: estrangler ii 164

♦to seize by the throat:

( 1121-35; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) Quant il se dormirait, Diables i viendraient, Estrangler le voldreient 2602

( c.1185 ) N’i ot chevaler ne vallet Qui tucher osast le levrer, Kar mult ert fel e paltener; N’i ad nul qui socurs li ( (=the little dog pinned down by the greyhound)) face, Estranglé l’eust en la place 3306

( s.xiii^4/4; MS: 1315-25 ) lé liuns egrement L’estranglerent a escient 1419

( 1356-57; MS: s.xiv^ex ) il y a gentz de moult malveise nature qe norissent grants chiens et les affaitent pur estranler lors amis quant ils sont malades, qar ils ne vollent mie q'ils moerent de la mort naturele 349

2to decapitate (with a sword):

( s.xii^ex; MS: c.1335 ) Le pere [n’] eust de ses fiz pité: Ambedeus ad le chef trenché: […]. ‘Sachez, dame, que […] Voz deus fiz ai estranglé’ 1113

v.n.

1to choke:

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) versez en sa large gule tant ke li gloton estrangle 45.13

v.refl.

1to strangle oneself:

( 1329-30 ) une femme se avoit estranglé d’une corde 3-4 Ed III 183

p.p._as_s.

1beast killed by strangulation?:

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^2/4 ) mais cils qe soi abstenent des sacrifices des symulacres, de fornicacion et de saunk d’estrangleez (var. de saunk estrangleez) (Latin: et suffocatis et sanguine) (B) 218a

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