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(
s.xii1; MS: 1155-60
)
Kar tu le tuen povre pueple salveras, e les halz oilz humilierasCamb Ps 25.XVII.27
(
c.1136-65; MS: c.1200
)
Anceis est queor d'ome atriblé Ke esauciét ne eslevé, E ainz k'il seit glorifié, Le covens estre humiliéSalemon 10760
(
s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2
)
E cil pur nient de buche crie Ki quor e cors pas n'umilieMirur1 147va33
♦to humiliate, subdue, defeat:
(
s.xii1; MS: 1155-60
)
Li [Si]res recevanz les privez, humilianz les feluns jusque a terre (Latin: humilians impios usque ad terram)Camb Ps 259.CXLVI.6
♦to prostrate:
(
1267; MS: c.1300
)
Le cors moulle (var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) humille) tut en genillant
Lum LaisANTS 5893
v.intrans.
to be humble, modest:
(
c.1136-65; MS: c.1200
)
Pur ço valt mielz humilier Od ceus de quer dreiturer Ke apartir molz garnemenz Ensemble od orgeilloses genz
Salemon 9549
(
1267; MS: c.1300
)
Sacremenz nus funt humilier Pur plere a Deu e sa grace aver
Lum LaisANTS 8749
(
s.xiii4/4; MS: 1315-25
)(J.C. instructs tree first to bow down and then to rise up again:) L'arbre dunc [...] Si se comense a dresser E cum avant tut dreit ester, Tant vout l'arbre humilierEnfances 248
v. absol.
to humiliate, make humble:
(
MS: 1155-60
)
Li Sire fait povre e enrichist, humiliet e suzlevet
Camb Ps 266.10
v. refl.
to humble, prostrate oneself:
(
1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3
)(J.C.) Forment se humiliat Quant od sa deited Volt prendre humanited
ComputANTS 1670
(
s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2
)
Donc s’agenoillent tuit e le roy s’omeli[e]Rom ChevANTS 7164
(
c.1200; MS: c.1220-40
)
Merci avera pur ço qu'il se humelie(var. (B:
s.xiii3/4) ceo qu’il s’umelie), Deu lui pramet que nul de sa ligné Tant cum il vit n'avrat de mort hasché
Anc Test (E) 14745
(
s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2
)
Lessetz cele vice (=pride) ester, Si apernetz de vous humilierCourtoisie 411.82
p.pr. as s.
one who humbles himself, supplicant:
(
1392-93
)
que comme le dit suppliant entre en sa dite meison, et autres de ses himoillaus (l. himoillans) ové luy, cestassavoir [...]
King’s Council Ireland 56
p.p. as a.
humble, modest:
(
s.xii1; MS: 1155-60
)
Attend a mei e oi. Humiliet(var. (B: s.xii4/4) humilied) sui en mun pensé (Latin: Humiliatus sum in meditatione mea)Camb Ps 93.LIV.2
humilier (1113-19)