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raddur (c.1180)
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The form rador is a cross reference to the following entry:

raddur (c.1180)

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rador,  radur,  raidur,  reddour,  reddur  
  FEW:  rapidus 10,66b Gdf:  rador 6,545b GdfC: ∅ TL: rador 8,156 DEAF:  rade 1 (rador)  DMF:  radeur  TLF: ∅ OED:  radeur n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

Despite a different etymon and core sense, the word seem to have interchanged with reddur1 (from Latin rigidus: ‘stiff, rigid’). The two AND entries have been distinguished primarily on the basis of semantics rather than form.

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geog.marit.rapidity, speed (of water or current): 
( c.1180; MS: s.xiii2 )  (the obstinate woman falls into a river:) Tant ert encuntre tute rien Que aval l’ewe n’est pas alee, Od reddur n’est mie turnee  MARIE Fables 346.48
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  la force e [...] la reddour De l'onde  Dial Greg SATF 4706
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  La raddur de l'eve mult dota  Gui War 12344
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  La rivere mult par est torte, [...] Mais tant devient e rade e forte  Ke la raidur la cupe enporte  S Modw 3836
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Les poisons d'eiwe douce [...] sunt tous les milhors [...], car par la rador du cours de l'eiwe [...] lur chars devient plus tendre et plus defiable  Waterford busby 284.S98.58
a, de grant raddur
rapidly, with great speed: 
( MS: s.xiiim )  Esgardez les beles meins sanz pecché, cum le sanc en eissi a grant radur  A-N Piety 266
( 1343-50; MS: 1343-50 )  la table [...] et le cyre qe illuqes fut offert en devocion del martyr de graunt reddour fut ousté et remewée  Cron Lond1 46.22
♦lawspeedily, promptly: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  saunz delay e a grantz reddour facent lever e fere des biens e des chateux meyme cely qe teux fauz delays aura quys  Dom Gip 116
faire raddur a (+ inf.)
to proceed swiftly with, hurry to: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  seyt plus hastyfe reddour fait a fere louer lour dettes ou lour damages derrenez  Dom Gip 112

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See also:

rade2  radement 
This is an AND2 Phase 5 (R-S) entry. © 2018-21 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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