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muiller1 (1121-35)
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muiller1 (1121-35)

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moilere,  moiller,  moillier,  molier,  mollier,  moyler,  moylere;  mueillier,  muellier;  muiler,  muillere,  muillier;  mulere,  mulier,  muliere,  mulyer;  muller,  mullere,  mullier,  mulliere;  muyliere,  muyllere,  muyllire  
  FEW:  mulier 6/iii,200a Gdf:  moillier 5,361a GdfC: ∅ TL: moillier 6,133 DEAF:  moillier 2  DMF:  moillier  TLF: ∅ OED:  mulier n.1  / mulier a., n.2 and adv.  MED:  mulier(e n. and a.  DMLBS:  mulier 1852b

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1femalewoman: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Entre fiz de muliers N’ert ned emfes plus chers  Best ants 2439
( MS: s.xii )  cum Deus uuarit seint Job, si uuarisse il icest hume vel ista mulier  Pop Med 83.3
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Betum est estant e trop tenant; Ren nule nel put depescer, For sul sanc menstre de mulier  Pet Phil 1652
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex )  ‘Beneite entre moliers’ tut le mund vus crie  Chant Chanz 652
♦kinshipfemalewife: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Pur ceo volt exiller Adam e sa mulier  Best ants 1494
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Jo ai mesfait par ma moiller  Adam2 422
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  il out un fiz de sa muller  Josaphaz2 169
2lawmulier, i.e. legitimate child, person born in wedlock: 
( 1338 )  voleit dire que le demandant fut bastard, et ne fut mye resceu, q’il plede comensaunt mulier  YBB 11-12 Ed III 581
( 1402 )  Et si trové soit par la dite assise le dit Thomas pier le dit Nichol estre mulier, qe le dit Nichol recoverera le dit manoir  Rot Parl1 iii 490
( c.1420-89 )  il serra ajugé bastard ou mulier  Readings i liv.n3
aver a muiller
kinship to have as one's wife, be married to: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Ewart out sa (=Godwin's) fille a moillier  Rom de Rou wace ii 88.5416
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ci nos dist de la femme Ulfer, Ermenild, qu'il out a mueillier  S Audree1 1782
faire sa (etc.) muiller
kinship to make ... one's wife, marry: 
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Margerite vit, si l'ama. Par ses chevaliers li manda Que sa moillier de li feroit  S Marg wace 9.99 (A)
prendre muiller
kinshipto take a wife, get married: 
( MS: 1120-40 )  volt que prenget moyler a sun vivant, Dunc li acatet filie d’un noble franc  S Alexis1 40
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Il prist muillier, Sexburc ot nun  GAIMAR1 1279
prendre a muiller
kinship to marry: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  A muiller, ço dist, la prendra, Ja altre feme nen avra  Brut WACE 1331
receivre cum sa (etc.) muiller
receivre

a.?

lawmulier, i.e. of legitimate birth, born in wedlock: 
( MS: c.1310 )  n’ad nul issue muler  Nov Narr 287 (var. D1)

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See also:

muilleré 
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