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tenserie (s.xii)
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tenserie (s.xii)

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  FEW:  *tensare 13/i,225a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: tenserie 10,233 DEAF:  tenser (tenserie)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  tenser n. (tenserie)  MED:  tenserie n.  DMLBS:  tenseria 3403b

s.

taxprotection-money, tax paid (to a lord) in return for protection: 
( MS: s.xii ) exactio: .i. tenserie  TLL i 21
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) De nostre aver nous quert pur aver tenserie  Rom Chev ANTS 2373
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex ) Ne pot tenserie [...] de eus aver par amur  FANT OUP 1127
doner, faire tenserie
taxto pay protection-money, tax: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) Alisandre passa les terres e vient en Lombardie [...]. Venent conte e baron e ly font tenserie  Rom Chev ANTS 1085
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 ) Tanz roys avoms vencu par nostre labur, Ore devom vers cesty prier d'aver s'amur E doner tenserie cum fussom vavasur  Rom Chev ANTS 2436
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 ) E si doreyent tenserie Pur aveir pais e membre e vie  S Edm Life ANTS 4271

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See also:

tensement1  tenser1  tensour1 
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