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folur (c.1136-65)
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folur (c.1136-65)

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foleiour;  foleur,  foleure,  folor,  folour  
  FEW:  follis 3,690a Gdf:  folor 4,53a GdfC: ∅ TL: folor 3,2019 DEAF:  fol 1 (folor)  DMF:  foleur  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

s.

1pathol.med.madness: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Mes il esteit pensif e auques en errur Enpur le rei d’Escoce, ki iert mis en folur  FANT OUP 1945
♦emotionpathol.med.rage, madness: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Tel orgoil as enpris, tel folur e tel rage Dunt tu es confonduz e tuit ti parentage  Rom Chev ANTS 961
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  La vengaunce la fyst retrere: [...] A deys senty tele chalur, Ceo la retret de sa folur  S Fran ANTS 8463
2folly, foolishness: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  De folour maistre tost seroit Quant homme a maistre despirroit  Dial Greg SATF 653
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Dunc est bien aver rigur, E cuntinance garder, sanz folur  Secr abernun 815
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  li deable fet hume enorguillir en folur E eslever sun quer encuntre sun creatur  Apoc giffard 3229
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  ils me ount corucee par lur folur, e jeo lour coruceray par ma reddour  BOZ Cont 61
♦error: 
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1300 )  e il respondi, E cele folour (var. cel errour fol) confoundi  Dial Jul 1789
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Il enveylla e en pluraunt La folur ke ly tynt avaunt Purga par bone repentaunce, En commun reconeust sa cheaunce  S Fran ANTS 6506
( MS: s.xiii2 )  errorem: (D) gallice foleure  TLL ii 26
3theol.sin: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Cil nus pardoint nos folies, Nos pecchez & nos vileinies  Mir N-D 115.94
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Li mauvais pechur, Mes kaunt morent li bonurez Ke vivent en saintetez Saunz peché e folur  CATO ANON ANTS 1058
4wantoness, lewdness: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Baisier enthoschet lechëor E entalente de folor  Salemon 4789
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  (woman) Tost ad lessié dreite veie, Tost est en la folur entree  S Osith 1334
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii1 )  Senz malveistiét e senz folur  Female Religious 180
♦wanton, lewd act: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  (man has so besought woman that) il sunt tut a un voleir de fere la folur pur veir  S Osith 1328
par folur
by mistake: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Por une pome se jo gerpis t’amor, Que ja en ma vie, par sens ne par folor  Adam2 110
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Eschar par folur hom revilist  BIBB ROTH (G) 171
tenir a folur
to think something is foolish: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 )  Mes sitost com il veu avoient Celi q'il clama pur seignur, Touz li tenoient a folur  Amis ANTS 946
turner a folur
1pathol.med.to go mad: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Les conreis de Caldee ont torné a folur; Ly vif s’en vont fuant a peine e a dolur  Rom Chev ANTS 1914
2to misuse: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  La grande beauté de vus ne turnez a folur  Horn 1218

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fol1 
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