seger1 (s.xiii1/3)

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seger1 (s.xiii1/3)

[gdw]

[ FEW: 11,409b sedicare; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: 9,330 segier; DEAF:  seoir (sieger) / siege (siegier); DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  siege v.; MED:  segen v.; DMLBS: ]
ceger;  sejer  

v.a.

1 mil. to besiege, lay siege upon
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Sarazins Qui sunt al siege al burc (var. (C: s.xiii2) sunt a seger le burc) des Galadins  (E) 5979 (var.)
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Segé sunt ben li Breton Tute nuit e tute jur  2813
( 1307; MS: 1307-15 )  [...] e segerunt Burdeus e les chasteus  318.1
( c.1335; MS: s.xivm )  Quant le counte Patrik [...] et altres qi maintendrent la siege savoient ceste novele, ils se remuerent d’illueqe, et s’en alerent saunz plus seger ou damager les Engleis  152
chess to attack, threaten (a piece)
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiv1 )  .iiij. reys tout enviroun Segé sount de tote pars, Ke mover ne pount en nule plas  30.149

p.pr._as_s.

1 mil. besieger, one who lays siege
( MS: s.xiii1 )  obsedentium: (R) de sejaunz (var. (D: s.xiii1) de cergauns (l. cegauns))  247
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  asultus obsidentium gloss: (D) segans elida[n]tur et enerventur  i 184.69 and ii 71.69
asseger  sege  segeage 
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