rebucher (s.xii2)

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rebucher (s.xii2)

[gdw]

  FEW:  bucca 1,583b Gdf: GdfC:  rebouchier 1 10,494a TL: reboissier 8,376 DEAF:  reboissier  DMF:  reboucher 2  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
rebocher;  reboucher,  rebouchier;  rebuchier,  rebuker,  resbucher  (ms. tresbucher (with the 't' expuncted))  

The verb may have been confused with rebuker1 (‘to rebuke’), which is both formally and semantically close, but derives from a different etymology, *busk, FEW 15/ii,28a, ‘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.

1 to become blunt
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) Li serjant ot al col un brief, Merci Deu, quil garda de grief, Kar li non Deu escrit i erent; Ço virent ço qui illoc erent, Que quant li quarels i tucha Qu’il resorti e resbucha  3575
2fig.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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