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hostager (c.1136-37)

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hostager (c.1136-37)

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hostagier; ostager, ostagier, ostajer, osteger, ostejer (obstager)

FEW: hospes 4,492a Gdf: hostagier 1 4,502a / ostagier 1 5,654b GdfC: ∅ TL: ostagier 2 6,1358 DEAF: oste (ostagier 1) DMF: ostager TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: hostagen v. DMLBS: hostagiare 1179a

v.trans.1to promise, pledge by providing hostages 2to stand as hostage 3to hold as hostages 4to release against, in return for hostages
v.refl.to stand as a hostage

v.trans.

1to promise, pledge by providing hostages:

( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiⁱⁿ ) Par engien d’autre partie Furent les raençons nomees E hostagies e fermees Rom de Rou wace ii 302.11264

( c.1136-37; MS: s.xii^ex ) Ço unt establit en lur [esgarz] E [hostaged] e afied GAIMAR¹ 4273

2to stand as hostage:

( 1136-37; MS: s.xiv¹ ) De drait fere gage donat, e maint riche home l'ostegat (var. (D: s.xii^ex) osteat) GAIMAR² 4879

3to hold as hostages:

( 1298 ) e jurront ces deus chevaliers qe il les ostageront ben e loiaument, selonc les condicions des persones Treaty Rolls i 144

4to release against, in return for hostages:

( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) par amor e par pité Somes ra[e]int e ostagié Salemon 7392

( 1298 ) E qe tutes les pris de nostre partie soient ostagietz e deliverés selomke la fourme de l’acorde Treaty Rolls i 135

v.refl.

lawto stand as a hostage:

( 1276-77 ) De nostre sire Moriz le fiuz M. cument la justice lui envea en Slebanre pur ostager les gent ke voleient venir a la pes sicume eus lyi qu’eient mandé (ed. queient mande) et ibi [sic] ala et returna et dit k’il ne se voleient ostager ne a la pes venir [...] Affairs of Ireland 14

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