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raisuner (1163-70)

raisuner (1163-70)

raisner,  reigner;  resoner,  resonner,  resuner  
[ FEW: 10,106a ratio; Gdf: 6,566b raisnier  /6,569b raisoné 1 /6,569b raisoné 2; GdfC: 10,476c raisonner; TL: 8,209 raisnier /8,224 raisoné /8,224 raisoner; DEAF:  raison (raisnier) / raison (raisoner); DMF:  raisnier  / raisonner; TLF:  raisonner 1 / raisonner 2; OED:  reason v.; MED:  resounen v.2; DMLBS: 2661b rationare ]

v.trans.

to call on, speak to
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  Sun cumpaignun prist a reigner, Si li dit: 'N'as tu que mangier?'  2603
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Ces baruns ala resunant E dist: 'Seignurs, ore de l'aler [...]'  11.150
to bring to account, question, interrogate
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  E puis lur prent a raisuner, De lur seingnur a demander [...] en quel liu le pot truver  281
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Quant ad mangé, Si.l prist a raisuner: 'Sire Willame, cum faitement errez?'  2506
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  A ceo vys vynt un bacheler, E comence Jhesu a resoner: ‘Ke estes vus?’  55.266
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  une femme [...], la quel ils pristrent et resonerent [...] de diverses poyntes  130.27

v.intrans.

to have reason, rational faculty, intellectual power of the mind
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  perres sunt, mes eles ne vivent, ne ne sentent, ne ne resunent  (A) 18.24-25
raisuner od
to talk to, reason with
( s.xiv1?; MS: s.xivm )  l[es] escolers [...] ly demanderont ascunes qestions, et dementiers q'il resonoyt od eux  14.115

p.pr. as a.

rational, endowed with reason
( c.1378; MS: s.xivex )  Le bien de l’alme resonnant Qe Dieus luy bailla  14983

sbst. inf.

reason, rational faculty, intellectual power of the mind
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  cument Il (=God) ad doné a checune creature: [as uns] estre sanz plus, [...] as autres estre, vivre e sentir e resuner  (A) 18.22

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See also:

araisuner  raisun  raisunable  raisunablement  raisunableté  raisunal  raisunement  raisuner 
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raisuner