rebucher (s.xii2)

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rebucher (s.xii2)

[gdw]

[ FEW: 1,583b bucca; Gdf: ; GdfC: 10,494a rebouchier 1; TL: 8,376 reboissier; DEAF:  reboissier; DMF:  reboucher 2; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
rebocher;  reboucher,  rebouchier;  rebuchier,  rebuker  

The verb may have been confused with rebuker1 (‘to rebuke’), which is both formally and semantically close, but derives from a different etymology (*busk, ‘bush’, as a verbal derivative in the sense of ‘to hit, strike’).

The DMF questions the bucca etymology (‘Etymol. douteuse’), and suggests an association with reburrus, FEW 10,137a (‘with bristling hair’), cf. AND reburs and DMF rebrois.

v.a.

1to blunt, make less sharp
( MS: s.xii2 )  ebes dicitur ab ebeto, -tas: rebucher  ii 26
fig.to blunt, dull, diminish
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  Des set ordres ai dit brefment, Kar trope rebouche entendement Et sovent poet petit plaisir Quant l'um l'entent bien a laisir  1478

v.n.

1fig.to shrink back, withdraw
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  the couple contemplating marriage Tantost sai[e]nt afiancez Et puis al l'eiglise amenez. Il daivent d'amepare grantier Que nule ne pusse rebuchier Et respoundre: 'Ceo n'est nient', Et desfaire l'aliement  252

p.p._as_a.

1blunt, having lost its sharpness
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  ces de Israel veneient as Philistiens pur aguiser e adrecier e le soc e le picois e la cuignee e la houe. Kar rebuchié furent lur hustilz de fer  24.21
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  hebetatus .i. rebuché, .i. induratus  146.128
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Vostre espee est reburse (var. (P: s.xiiiin) reboché), ses branz est acerez  1589 (var. P)
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiiex )  Les denz des lups serrunt rebukez e quassez  115
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Eale [...] Si est de dous cornes armee; [...] L'une tent red quant se cumbat, E l'altre lung sun dos tient flat; E kant cele est rebukee, Arere est mise e l'altre avancee  661
blunt, without an edge or point
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  les =scrofulous sores etc. devez [...] od un fer rebuchié traire hors  i 66.xiii
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  si furent les clous rebuchez issi ke il fuirent la char e depescerent les os  16.18
fig.dull, obtuse, stupid
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Tant fut =Adam confus e rebouchiez E asorbez de ses pecchiez  14311
rebuc#1  rebuchement  reburs  reburser 
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