oppress1 (1328)

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oppress1 (1328)

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[ FEW: 7,377b opprimere; Gdf: 5,609a oppresse 2; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: 2037c opprimere (oppressus) ]
opprés; 
f. oppresse  

The masculine form together with the rhyming position of the feminine form justifying the interpretation oppresse rather than oppressé, indicate that this form is not simply the past participle of oppresser. However, Gower, who is the main source for this word in Anglo-Norman, does use the form as a straightforward past participle: ‘N’est verité qui puet remeindre, Dont ont oppress le pueple meindre Du maint errour superflual’ (gower Mirour 23207), not using a normally-formed French p.p., but transposing into Anglo-Norman the Latin p.p. form oppressus (minus its Latin ending). As a result, the present article may, alternatively, be incorporated into oppresser (p.p. as a.).

a.

1harassed, troubled, burdened
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  As tous ceaux q'ont le cuer opprés Du tribulacioun mondeine  14018
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Sur tous plus doit avoir tendresce Et plourer pour la gent oppresse  19940
oppressed, ill-treated (by abuse of power)
( 1328 )  Lé genx [...] sunt taunt destreynt e opprés par abbés e priours e autres riches homs del pays, ke il ne porunt mye lur custumes lever ne les fraunchys meyntenir ke a lur ferme apent  ii 19
med.pathol.oppressed, afflicted
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Du lepre, qui par tout la (=Mary, sister of Moses) blesce, Dont par sept jours gissoit oppresse  2660
2crushed, defeated
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Constance [...] Toute autre vertu gist oppresse (: hostesse) Si ceste amont ne la survoie  14379
oppreindre  oppresse#1  oppresser  oppression  oppressour  opprimer 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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