[poentable] (s.xiii4/4)
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[poentable] (s.xiii4/4)

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  FEW:  *expaventare 3,304a Gdf:  poentable 6,241b GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  espoenter (*)  DMF:  poentable  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
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This Anglo-Norman gloss to a thirteenth-century text of Claudian’s De Raptu Proseprinae preserves a rare aphetic form of espoentable.

a.

1emotionfrightening, terrifying, terrible: 
( MS: s.xiii4/4 )  terribilis: pountable / mugitibus: mugicemens  ii 11
espoentable 
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