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prisoner1 (1260)

prisoner1 (1260)

prisouner,  prysoner  
  FEW:  prehensio 9,355b Gdf: GdfC: TL: prisoner 7,1902 DEAF:  prison (prisoner)  / prison (prisoné)  DMF: TLF: OED:  prison v.  MED:  prisounen v.  DMLBS:  prisonare 2468

v.trans.

lawto imprison, incarcerate
( 1260; MS: c.1300 )  Nul homme puet fere atorné [...] en nule bref ou ley gist ne enprisonement pur ceo ke ly atorné ne deit pas estre prisoné pur son seignur  Brev Plac 30.n1
( 1295 )  qe Mestre Willame [...] a tort li ad fet prisoner en fers en la prison de Flete  King’s Council ss 10

p.p. as a.

lawimprisoned, incarcerated
( MS: 1419 )  Et pur ceo qe multz des gentz prisoneez cea en arere ount estez morz avaunt le venue des Justices eirauntz a la Tour  Lib Alb 297
nun prisoné
nunprisoné

p.p. as s.

lawprisoner, one who is incarcerated
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Mes les prisounez pur felounie en nule manere voloms suffrer de nul homme enpleder  BRITT i 46.6
( 1379 )  jeo voille qe le jour de ma sepulture soit donez az poures .x. li. et a lez prysonez en Newgate .xx. s.  Will Beauchamp 6

[gdw]

See also:

desprisuner  emprisoner  prison  prisonee  prisonement  prisoner1  prisoner2  prisoneré 
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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