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taxtribute, payment from one country or ruler to another, acknowledging submission or purchassing peace:
(
s.xii1; MS: 1155-60
)
Li rei de Tharse e les illes duns offerunt, li rei d'Arabie e de Saba treut (var.
(P: s.xii4/4) treud
) aporterunt (Latin: tributum conferent)Camb Ps 126.LXXI.10
(
1163-70; MS: s.xiii2
)
Dunc ad le treu parduné E a tuzjurz quite clammé
S Edwbarking 2261
(
1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4
)
Touz les Sarazins [...] se enclinerunt a Charles e li enveyerunt true encountre e li rendirunt les cités
Turpin 114
(
s.xiii2; MS: s.xiiiex
)
Ses homes devindrent par homage, e par treu e par ostage
Early Kings Verse3 752
(
c.1200; MS: c.1220-40
)
Il establi des melz de ses baruns [...] Aduram pur cuillir les triuz Des paens qui se sunt a lui renduz [...]
Anc Test (E) 11449
donner triu (a)
taxto pay a tribute (to) (as a sign of submission):
(
c.1200; MS: c.1220-40
)
Edom, Ydumeu e le grant Lobna Qui ainz donerent treu as fiz Juda
Anc Test (E) 16575
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
Mun treu me donez ! Checun me deit de vus .m. besanz d'or fundez
Gui Bourgognecfma 894
(
1309; MS: s.xvi2
)
la feu cely roy Cassibelyn veyncu, si dona treu a Rome
Petit Bruit 7.39
mettre a triu
taxto put under tribute, exact a tribute from (as a sign of submission):
(
c.1200; MS: c.1220-40
)
Il cunquist Filisteus e Arabiz E mist a treu (var.
(B: s.xiii3/4) trou
)Anc Test (E) 17471
mettre triu sur
taxto put under tribute, exact a tribute from (as a sign of submission):
(
1216-25; MS: s.xiv1/4
)
Il venqui tous les roys de Wales, si mist trewe sur eus
Reis Britt1 18
(
MS: c.1300
)
Les reis de Wales venqui tuz, si mist trewes sur eus, si ke il out chescun an de Nor Wales vint livres de or e treis cent de argent e vint miles vaches
Early Prose History 267
triu (s.xii1)