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tencer1 (c.1170)

tencher,  tencir,  tenser,  tensir  

v.a.

1to chide, scold
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  (Sinners mock God because) il ja ne lur dit ne els nait (l. vait) tenchant  1880
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Mut la comence a laidenger Des paroles e a tencer  700
2to protest, complain
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Mes ore est veire la sentence Dunt li poetes par vers tence  64
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  trestot soeffre (= J.C.) en pacience! Pas ne reclaime ne ne tence  991
tencer a, cum, cuntre, vers
1to quarrel, wrangle with
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Wikele, dist Modin, kar lessez cest seignur, De tencer cuntre lui n'i avrom ja honur  4031
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Mut conussez petit cest prudeber A ki tu cumences tant viument a tencer  1309
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  (recluses) les queles com tote la congregacion longement avoit (sic) tencee  107.11
2to fight against
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Rolland qui as fellons tence Dont Roncevaus est testmognance  3979
3to revolt against
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Tobie tempté vers Dieu tence  5092
4dispute, wrangling
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  N'avum suin de tencier ne de manace cure  1410
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  A haut voiz escrie: 'Vostre tenser lessez!'  3359
( c.1241; MS: s.xiii2 )  ke vostre almone seyt [...] saunz tencer e batre parti a poveres, malades e mendiaunz  400
This is an AND1 entry © MHRA 1977-1992: reproduced with permission. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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