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emporter1 (1121-25)

The form importer is a cross reference to the following entry:

emporter1 (1121-25)

amporter,  anporter;  emportier;  enporter;  importer  
  FEW:  portare 9,215b Gdf: GdfC:  emporter 9,445b TL: emporter 2 3,127 DEAF:  porter (emporter)  DMF:  emporter  TLF:  emporter  OED:  import v.  MED:  importen v.  DMLBS:  importare 2 1263c

v.trans.

1to carry off, away
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) Uns grips flammaz de l'air descent [...]. Bord de la nef n'i ad si fort Sul od l'ungle que ne l'enport  S Brend mup 1012
( MS: 1120-40 )  Trestuz le prenent ki pourent avenir; Cantant enportent le cors saint Alexis  S Alexis1 507
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Mut suef l’enporta (var. (O: s.xiiim) le porta) triés sei sur sun cheval  Horn 197
to take away
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  [...] ne me lessez ici, E mun frere G. enportez autresi  Horn 3523
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (The pheasant) Enporté esteyt mut sovent Hors de clos al veyngne (=vineyard) foreyne […]. Mes sun chemyn tutdys reprist A Fraunceys  S Fran ANTS 3829
( 1435 )  le quelle chose emport et sustret le corage et bone volunté des marchauntz  Rot Parl1 iv 492
to remove, strike off
( c.1185 )  A l’estuertre pas nel deporte, L’escu de [son] col loinz enporte  Proth ANTS 9857
to carry away illegally
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  la dreynete (l. dreynere) fez que vous futes al molyn le seignur pur vostre blé mourdre, enportastes le tonue en grant prejudice le seignur  Court Bar (A) 52
( 1334 )  qe nulle moneie desoremés soit emporté hors de la terre  Rot Parl2 237
( 1427 )  prist et emporta diverses graundes summes de moneie  Rot Parl1 iv 321
to carry off as a prize
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Qui la meistrie e le cembel Enportot de toz les pastors  S Greg 1260
2to carry
( MS: 1120-40 )  Aveit an Rome un eglise mult bele. Iloec an portent danz Alexis a certes, Ed attement le posent a la terre  S Alexis1 568
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Li charetter avera sa riorte, Mes li carruer la aguilloun enporte  BIBB ROTH (G) 902
fig.to bear, sustain
( 1399 )  meschiefs [...] qe les ditz lieges [...] suffrent et importent  Rot Parl1 iii 440
3to carry forward, continue
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  En taunt lur (=to the parents of an only daughter who had died) sembla graunt damage Ke ne aveyent autre ke heritage Peut en porter (l. enporter) de lur engendrure  S Fran ANTS 6759
4to draw, derive
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  autre bien ne enportent fors travayl sanz lower  BOZ Cont 110
5to knock down, bring down
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Le cors li perce, ben le sout fere, E del chival l’enporte a terre  Mir N-D 12.184
to destroy, bring to nothing
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  par le vent d’une parole puit estre tout emporté et anenti  Ancren1 122.16

sbst. inf.

removal, carrying off
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  L’embler, l’enporter, lu fuir  Dial Greg SATF 11463
( 1317 )  il conussunt l’emporter et le prendre de nouz blez  YBB Ed II xxi 82
( 1402 )  de l’emporter des munimenz et chartres hors d’icelles  Rot Parl1 iii 488
( 1415 )  pur l’emportier les [sic] money et joialx hors du dite roialme  Rot Parl1 iv 79

See also:

aporter1  desporter  esporter  porter2 
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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