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uissur (s.xii2/4)
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uissur (s.xii2/4)

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oisor,  oisour,  oisur;  oixor,  oixur;  ouxor,  ouxsur,  ouxur;  ucsor,  uxour,  uxur; 
Latin uxor  
  FEW:  usor 14,91b Gdf:  oissor 5,589a GdfC: ∅ TL: oissor 6,1058 DEAF:  oissor  DMF:  oisour  / ussere  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  uxor 3577c

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kinshipfemalewife, a woman joined to a man by marriage: 
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  des pulceles e des gentilz oixurs  Roland 821
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Devant gent se feseit m’uissur, En privé cum fille u surur  S Edw barking 5081
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Jo ai guerpi mun criator par le conseil de mal' uxor  Adam2 322
doner a uissur a
kinship female to grant (a woman) in marriage to: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  [...] E doinst al duc, nostre seinnor, Innogen, sa fille, a oisur  Brut WACE 523-24
( 1160-70; MS: c.1200 ) Nul de nus ne durrat sa fille as fiz Benjamin a oisur  Judges Templars 131.1
prendre a uissur
kinshipfemaleto wed, take to wife: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  nel vousist chalenger De l'ucsor son frere laisser, Li tiranz ne l'ocesist mie Ki ainz le prisout et sa vie  Salemon 5762
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Si vus prendra a per a sun oes e oixor (var. (H: s.xiiim) uxur) - La grant beauté de vus ne turnez a folur, Tost en dirreient mal li garçon menteur, Ki mençoinges cuntroevent cumme losengeur  Horn 1217
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Donc si prist Constanz l'onur E la fille Coel a ouxur  Brut Royal 3590

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See also:

uxoracion 
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