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sambler; sembleir, semblir, semler, senbler;
p.p. semblet,
(ind.pr.3 senlle Fol Trist ANTS 210)

FEW: similare 11,626a Gdf: sembler 7,370b GdfC: sembler 10,658b TL: sembler 9,397 DEAF: sembler DMF: sembler 1 TLF: sembler OED: semble v.2 MED: semblen v.2 DMLBS: similare 1 3088a / simulare 1 3092c

v.trans.1to resemble, look like, be similar to 2to seem, appear to be 3to consider, deem (in error for an impersonal construction?)
v.intrans.to appear, give the impression of being, seem
v. impers.to become apparent, transpire
v.refl.to become apparent, transpire

v.trans.

1 to resemble, look like, be similar to:

( s.xii^1/3; MS: s.xii^ex ) Allectoire [...] Eiue semble de la culur Lapid 33.134

( s.xii²; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) nuls n'est ki te semble al ciel desus ne en la terre desuz Liv Reis¹ 130.23

( s.xiii^m; MS: s.xiii^ex ) il veoit hommes aler e sembloient arbres Gospel Harmony 52.57.4

( s.xiii^3/3; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) si a en ces jardins mout d’arbres dom chasqun fait un fruit de cent manieres que l’un ne semble l’autre Eschiele Mahomet 26vb.12

2 to seem, appear to be:

( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Ceste signe ne sembla pas songe GAIMAR² 2156

( 1155; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Altre dient altre achesun Qui assez bien semble raisun Brut WACE 5078

( s.xiii^ex; MS: s.xiv² ) Quatre bestes [...] Dunt la premere resembla leun [...], E la quarte ke il me mustra Egle volant tresbien sembla Apoc giffard 788

3 to consider, deem (in error for an impersonal construction?):

( 1371; MS: s.xv¹ ) ataunt (=money) come vous semblez que moi purraye suffire SAMPS¹ 377.30

( 1378-80 ) la quel toure et mures les seignurs suisdit illoeqes venauntz et veiauntz la meschief et peril du dite ville, semblerent le soveraigne reoverere (l. recoverere) de mesme la ville les dites choses estre faitz Northumb 36

( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv¹ ) que vous veulliez [...] ordeigner [...] come vous mielx semblerez pur l'oeps et profit de [...] Richarde Lett & Pet 122.72.5

sembler a

to compare with, consider similar to:

( c.1390; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Au chat auci te doy sembler Quant du sourris se fait juer GOWER Mirour 9955

v.intrans.

to appear, give the impression of being, seem:

( s.xiiiⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiii^m ) Deus, qui veit lur malveis cuer, reproevet lur vie que semlet bone Paroles Salomun 800

sembler a

1 to resemble, look like, be similar to:

( s.xii^1/3; MS: s.xii^ex ) Elyotrope [...] A esmaragdes semblent tutes, Mais k’eles ont sanguines guttes Lapid 53. 617

( s.xii^2/4; MS: s.xiii^2/4 ) Frere fu dit par parenté E par valor e par bonté. Alques li semblot de façon Conception wace 1165

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Bien sembliez trestuit estre nez de gent fiere, Un point ne sembliez a home qui pain quiere Horn 1133

♦ (in a comparison or simile) to resemble, be like, share a quality with:

( s.xii¹; MS: 1155-60 ) Semblez sui al pellican del desert (Latin: Assimilatus sum pelicano deserti) Camb Ps 182.CI.6

2 to seem, come across to:

( c.1240; MS: c.1300 ) Si le demande la novele Coment li semble sa porture Mir N-D 73.XIV.218

( 1319 ) [...] e ceo senble a moy qe suffit YBB Ed II xxv 24

3 to seem, appear to be the case to:

( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) uncor me pleyne jeo de mes oeux qe m’ont sovent trahi et enginee en meynt fol regard et m’ont fait sembler ceo qe n’estoit mye Sz Med¹ 12.18

sembler (+ adj.) a

to appear, give the impression of being, seem to:

( 1113-19; MS: s.xii^3/3 ) (suspended lamps:) Cele qui prof serait Plus alte conceverait; L'altre qu'en lung serait Basse li semblerait Comput ANTS 2542

( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv¹ ) [...] Pur ço que a mei semblez mult bel S Brend mup 518

( 1280 ) nous manda que elles li samblent trop gries Foedera¹ i 586

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1312-40 ) Le jogelour se hasta [...] quar molt ly sembla long la demuere Fouke ANTS 33.4

sembler cum

to resemble, look like, be similar to:

( s.xiiiⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) Vus (=one who mourns the death of a child) mei semblez [...] Cum un pomer ki est chargé [...] Pet Plet ANTS 1107

( s.xiii^3/3; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) lor visages sembloient ausinc com chandoilles ardanz Eschiele Mahomet 24vb.24-25

sembler sicum

to seem as if:

( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) les autres (=sins) semblent si com ceo feussent almoignes encontre les autres Sz Med¹ 116.18

v. impers.

to become apparent, transpire:

( 1325 ) duraunt le sege, les gentz [...] monstrerent fieble covyne, auxi come hom nous reporta et sembla par fait Rot Parl² 97

(il) semble a

1 it seems to, appears to be the case to, gives (someone) the impression:

( s.xii^1/3; MS: s.xii^ex ) (two types of stone:) L’altr’est plus clere, ce me semble Lapid 41.330

( c.1200; MS: s.xiii^3/4 ) Si eslisez de tuz ensemble Le meillur si cum vus semble Josaphaz² 2546

( 1395; MS: s.xv¹ ) a l’effect, ce nous semble, de venir au contraire de nostre desir Lett & Pet 172.116.13

2 it becomes, is fitting to:

( MS: c.1400 ) ne semble poynte un jolife chivaler [...] concile demander SAMPS² (H2) 19r

(il) semble a ... que (+ subclause)

it seems to, appears to be the case to, gives (someone) the impression that:

( c.1170; MS: s.xii^ex ) Par mi çoe qu'estes si degasté e frarin, Ne semble (var. (H: s.xiii^m) ne me semle) ke seiez ne tafur ne tapin Horn 3970

( s.xiii^ex; MS: 1307-15 ) [...] devoms nus entendre ke confession doit estre amere encontre ceo ke homme sembla acun tens ke li pecché fu duz Ancren² 60.6

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1312-40 ) Joce sembla qe la medlé dura trop longement Fouke ANTS 11.25

( 1318 ) Il semble as justices [...] qe le roi poet granter [...] Rot Parl² 68.n7

(il) semble (+ adj.) a ... de (+ inf.)

it seems ... for (someone) to ...:

( s.xiiiⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiii^m ) Se grief vus semble de guarder les comandemenz Deu, ne vus desesperez Paroles Salomun 356

que, coment vus (etc.) semble (de) ...?

what do you (etc.) think, is your (etc.) view (of)?:

( MS: s.xii^2/4 ) Vostre conseill ai otriet tuz tens. Que vos en semblet d’Arrabiz e de Francs? Roland 3511

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Ke t'en ad [...] semblé? Veis mais en cest mund home meuz figuré? Horn 1233

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^m ) ‘Coment vus semble de ma aleyne?’ ‘Il puit vilement’ BOZ Cont 38

( 1315 ) Jeo pos qe [...] et l’un fit defaute: coment vous sembleroit la? YBB Ed II xvii 17

cum meuz lui (etc.) semble

to his (etc.) preference, as seems best to him (etc.):

( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) q'il vous plese de y mettre tiel remede come meultz vous semblera affaire pur moi Sz Med¹ 66.16

( 1391 ) [...] pour disposer pour ma aulme comme mieutht lour semblera Test Ebor i 144

(il) semble tard a ... que
tard

v.refl.

to become apparent, transpire:

( 1277-78 ) E del imprisunement prie remedie de luy e de sa gent ke unquore sunt en la presone, desi cum se semle ke enprisonement ne gist pas (=is not appropriate) en ceo cas Rot Parl¹ i 3

p.p. as a.

estre semblé a

to be similar to (cf. semble):

( s.xii¹; MS: c.1145 ) A tei, Sire, crierai; li miens Deus, ne taisir de mei, que tu alquune fiede ne taises de mei, e serai semblet as descendanz en lac Oxf Ps ANTS 57.27.1

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