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trebuchement (s.xii1)

The form tresbuchement is a cross reference to the following entry:

trebuchement (s.xii1)

trebuchment;  tresbuchement,  tresbuschement;  tribuchement;  trubuchement  
  FEW:  buk 15/ii,4b Gdf:  trebuchement 8,33a GdfC: TL: trebuchement 10,557 DEAF:  trebuchier (trebuchement)  DMF:  trebuchement  TLF:  trebucher (trebuchement)  OED: MED: DMLBS:

s.

1fall, tumble, plunge
( 1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) El feu enfernal de torment Avrat mortel trebuchement  Salemon 7094
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 ) Par le defulement pouns nus entendre le trubuchement des mauveis en enfer  Apoc Abingdon 798
2downfall, ruin, destruction
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Jugera es naciuns, aemplira tribuchemenz, dequassera les chiés en terre de mulz  Oxf Ps ANTS 111.109.7
( s.xii2; MS: c.1200 ) Achitofel sone en latin fratris ruina, tribuchemenz de frere, et signefie Judam traditorem  Psalter Comment VIII.19-20
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiiin ) Poeple [...] survendra [...]. As cultivors maisuns restorra; As aliens trebuchmenz fera  Merlin Proph helias 100
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Car civile hange est tresbuchement as enemis e profit a lor defension  vegetius1 92
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  et ceo est fait a Gedeon et tote sa maisoun en tresbuschement  Judges ANB 66.455
od grant trebuchement
with great speed, suddenly
( 1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) Quant lor miserie sodeement Vendrat od grant trebuchement (Latin: Cum irruerit repentina calamitas)  Salemon 1298

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See also:

trebuch1  trebuchable  trebucher  trebuchet  trebuchie 
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