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rere2 (c.1200)

rere2 (c.1200)

reire,  riere  
  FEW:  retro 10,345b Gdf:  riere 1 7,190c GdfC: TL: rier 8,1288 DEAF:  rier  DMF:  rière  TLF: OED:  rear a.2 and n.2  MED:  rere a.1  DMLBS:  retro 2819a

a.

additional, further
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Les rere supers en privité (M.E. Rere sopers yn pryvyte), Quant lur seignurs sunt cuché, Fere ne deivent li leal sergant Quant mangé unt assez devant  Man pechez 5827
rere acunte
rereacunte
rere bai
rerebay
rere ban
rereban
rere conté
rereconté
rere dos
reredos
rere fé
rerefié
rere garde
reregarde
rere main
reremein
rere souquet
reresouquet

adv.

1back, backwards
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Frere Joab, qui tant par fut isnel, Nel vout tucher, enz dit en son latin: ‘Va t'en rere, tu m'es trop veisin’  Anc Test (B) 8972
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  Ex hoc penso materia trame sumatur, dum manus altera naviculam textoris iaculetur, idem beneficium prioris manus usque in sociam manum remissuram (glosses: (D) derere wyere; (L) rere feyr)  TLL i 184-85.73 and ii 73 (L)
( MS: s.xivin )  Puz ky jo su degeté une feze en despit, a quey returneray rere a luy?  A-N Piety 132
2from behind one’s back
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Constaunce [...] lui vient rere au doos et le trebucha en la mere  TREVET Cron1 215.9
traire rere
to draw back, retreat
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiim )  Si nus les noz freres ultre mesure tendum, Il rere terrunt (l. t[r]errunt) (Latin: cito deficiunt) mult tost Pur ce nus covient noz freres amesurer, Si qu’il pussent de Deu le labur sustenter  Vitas 3164

s.?

post de rere
post1

[gdw]

See also:

arere  derere1 
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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