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plevir (s.xii1/3)

plevir (s.xii1/3)

pleiver,  plever  
  FEW:  *plegan 16,633a Gdf:  plevir 6,218c GdfC: TL: plevir 7,1153 DEAF:  plevir plevir DMF:  plevir  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  pleviare 2320b

v.trans.

to pledge, promise, swear
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Si tost cum le fum sentira, Ignelepas trebuchera, E, s’il chet, ben poez plevir Que il n’est pruz a retenir  Lapid 240.1137
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  .xxx. parenz li plevissent leial  Roland 3847
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  si tu me veuls leit aporter issi cum tu einceis fesis, bien t'ert rendu, jol te plevis  MARIE Fables 72.86
( c.1282 )  si deit estre sumuns et namé et plevy  Bor Cust i 252
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  en primes plevisse la chose demaundé  Mir Just 127
to pledge, stand surety for
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  soint les pleges somouns de oyer lour jugement, pur quei il ne avoint en Court celi qe il plevirent  BRITT i 129
plevir sa fei
fei1

p.p. as s.

1pledge, surety
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  E lur frai greinur damage [...] Dunt ja n'en iert [plevis ne] gage  S Modw 8048
2lawperson for whom a pledge is made
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  La forme de plegage soit tiele, qe, si il ne eynt avaunt lour plevyz de ester a dreit en nostre Court [....]  BRITT i 49
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  pur ceo qe ordené fu aunciement [sic] qe nul demoerast en reaume s'il ne fist en diseine e plevi de franc homme apent as hundreders de veoir une foiz par an les franccz pleges e les pleviz  Mir Just 39

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See also:

applever  entreplevir  irreplevisable  plevine  plevisable  plevissement  replevin  replevir  replevisable  replevissement 
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.
plevir