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(
c.1136-65; MS: c.1200
)
De deous cremes trovuns escriz: L'une de serf, l'altre de filz. De la servil creme comence Le come[n]çail de sapience De ço que li serf ad pour Qu'en enfern ait peine e dolor
Salemon 475
(
s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4
)(J.C.) servel mestier pur lui fist Quant [...] Deinnat a serfs lur piez laver
S JeanANTS 4484
♦
anat.(of an organ) subordinate, subject to the control of another organ:
(
1240; MS: s.xiii3/4
)
L'esplien est servil membre e de ceo avient que de legier suffre taillures e arsures
A-N Med i 77.xxv
(
s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim
)
par jurs festivals, quant li humes deit entendre a espiritel joie e rep(o)s e cesser de servil travail e de peccheruse uveraine
Joshua Sermons 19
(
1237-40; MS: 1662
)
et de chacune seculere custume et servile overayne et demaunde
Three Chronicles 22.104
(
s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiim
)
Deu [...] warda la dimeine En la lei de chescun servil overaine
Vis S Paul alex 246
servil (c.1136-65)