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essoigner (1171-74)
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The form esuinner is a cross reference to the following entry:

essoigner (1171-74)

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essoiner;  essoneer,  essoneier,  essoner,  essonier,  essonyer;  essoygner,  essoyner;  essuinner;  essunier;  esunier  
  FEW:  *sunni 17,274b Gdf:  essonnier 3,578b GdfC: ∅ TL: essoignier 3,1313 DEAF:  soing (essoignier)  DMF:  essoiner  TLF: ∅ OED:  essoin v.  MED:  essoinen v.  DMLBS:  essoniare 808a

v.trans.

lawto essoin, excuse for non-appearance in court: 
( 1292 )  home denz cunté ou le heyr est ne put nent estre essoiné  YBB 20-21 Ed I 29
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 ) Excuser ne se poent null defendaunt en personels accions [...], ne ou l'en ad attornee en court si andeus ne soient essoneiez  Mir Just 83
( s.xv ) lez parties serront garnis par precept de la maieur directe as baliefes, et lez tenantz pourront estre essoygnez  YMB ii 265

v.intrans.

lawto essoin, provide an excuse for non-appearance in court: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  La fist li reis sumundre seint Thomas pur pleidier [...]. Il fu emferms al jur e ne pot chevalchier; A dous des suens a fet le jor essunier  Becket1 1420
( 1275 )  [...] de l’houre q’il eit une fiez apparu en court, qe mes ne puisse essoyner  Stats i 37.xlii

v.refl.

to excuse, exempt oneself: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  [...] Quant cist se prist a essonier E dist que od lui ne pout aler  S Clem ANTS 4401
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 ) pur richesce terriens Ne poet uenir a la Deu ceine. E cum par aveir plus s'essoigne De la Deu grace plus s'esloigne  Mirur1 123va
♦lawto essoin oneself, excuse oneself for non-appearance in court: 
( c.1260; MS: c.1300 )  A la terce curt le tenant se fra essonyer  Casus Plac 11
( 1278 ) E si les pleintifs desoremés en tel trespas se facent essoneer aprés la primere apparaunce  Stats i 48
( 1334 )  a tres semaignes de Pasche darrein passé le dit R. sei fet essonier du (=due to) service n[ostre] dit seign[u]r le roi  Rot Parl1 ii 89
se essoigner de outremer
outremer

See also:

assoigner  essoigne1  essoignement  essoignour 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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