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enviellir (s.xii1/3)
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enviellir (s.xii1/3)

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enveiler,  enveiller,  enveilir,  enveillir;  envelir,  envellir;  envielhir,  enviller;  (esveilir,  evillir );
pret.3 enveilli; 
pret.6 enveilirent; 
fut.3 enveillera,  enveillerad,  enviellira; 
p.p. enveilli,  envieilli,  envellé,  envilli,  envillié  
  FEW:  vetulus 14,362b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  envieillir 9,495c TL: envieillir 3,715 DEAF:  vieil (envieillir)  DMF:  envieillir  TLF:  envieillir  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.intrans.

to grow old: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ja nuls hom ne enviellira Qui ceste pere portera  224.629
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Emfes fui, e acertes jeo enveilli (Latin: senui)  62.XXXVI.25
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Cum plus les (=one's parents) verrais enveiler, Plus les dois amer et suffrir  422.49
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Les oifs moien [...] solonc ce qu’il envielhissent pis vallent  283.S97.33
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv1/4 ) De tele nature sunt Ke en treis anz enfanz unt, E en .vij. evillissent E de lur juvence issent  367
♦to become feeble: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Tant li dora (=lasted) la maladie Ke ele fu tote envillie  4377
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  en .ij. maneres envoilist homme e defalt  353

p.pr. as s.

elderly person: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Pernez en guarde bon enfant E juvencel e enveillant  2699

p.p. as a.

grown old: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ne sui pas si envielli, [...] Ke deive terre perdre  135
♦oenol.(of wine) old, aged: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  si le vin seit tant enviely (var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) esveili )Ke seit cum eisil enegry [...]  9509
♦inveterate, long-established: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Mes de moi ki chaut, peccheur enveilli?  464

p.p. as s.

old person: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Pleurent e weimentent li jovre e enveilli  1514

See also:

enviezir  viellir 
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