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estrangler (1121-35)
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estrangler (1121-35)

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

v.trans.

1to strangle, throttle, hold by the throat and suffocate: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Quant il se dormirait, Diables i viendraient, Estrangler le voldreient  Best ants 2602
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Miex la voudroit avoir noié ou estranglee  Rom de Rou wace i 107.2807
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Asael d’un lach estrangla le roi  Liv Reis1 189
( MS: s.xiiiex )  jugulo: estrangler  TLL ii 164
♦(of an animal) to seize by the throat: 
( 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  Proth ANTS 3306
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1315-25 )  lé liuns egrement L’estranglerent a escient  Enfances 1419
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  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  Mandeville 349
♦ fig. to strangle, eliminate: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  cil courteour Que estranglent sainte Eglise  Mar Diable 85
2to decapitate (with a sword): 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 )  Le pere [n’] eust de ses fiz pité: Ambedeus ad le chef trenché: […]. ‘Sachez, dame, que […] Voz deus fiz ai estranglé’  Amis ANTS 1113

v.intrans.

to suffocate, choke: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  versez en sa large gule tant ke li gloton estrangle  Ancren2 45.13

v.refl.

1to strangle oneself: 
( 1329-30 )  une femme se avoit estranglé d’une corde  YBB 3-4 Ed III 183
2 to suffocate, choke: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  jo sai bien qu’il s’estrangla D’un morsel que li reis seigna A Odiam, ou il mainga  Rom de Rou wace ii 89.5454

p.p. as s.

beast killed by strangulation?: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  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)  Actes (B) 218a

See also:

strangler 
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