We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
veer2 (s.xii3/4)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

The form veier4 is a cross reference to the following entry:

veer2 (s.xii3/4)

Cite this entry
veier,  vier,  voier; 
ind.pr.1 vé,  vied; 
ind.pr.3 vee,  vie; 
ind.pr.4 vioms,  vions; 
ind.pr.5 veez; 
pret.3 vea,  veia,  via; 
pret.6 veierent; 
fut.5 veirrez; 
cond.3 verreit,  viereit,  veiereit,  verreit; 
cond.5 verretz; 
sbj.pr.3 vit; 
sbj.impf.3 veiast; 
sbj.impf.6 viacent; 
p.p.m. veé,  veié,  vié,  voié; 
p.p.f. vee,  veee,  vedee,  veiee  

v.trans.

1to forbid: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Que Adam cunquist a siz lignez Par la prise del frut viez  S Modw 28
2to refuse, deny: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Prent citez e chastels; ne li fust nul veé  Rom Chev ANTS 1075
( 1321 )  Il ly via la clef q'il ne poait entrer  YBB Ed II xxvi 222
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  vous estes si curtois qe riens ne vous verretz a un bosoignous qi de coer vous en prieroit  Sz Med1 188
3lawto refuse to deliver (a distress): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et aussi est cist disseisi, a qi destresce renable est viee  BRITT i 276
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  qe nul ne veast a autre renable destresce  Mir Just 13
( 1321 )  Qar s'il eust une destr[esce] e fut vié, il poait dunqe user la redisseisine  YBB Ed II xxvi 277
4to prevent: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  par force me prendrunt; ne purrai veyer  Boeve 1987
( 1303 )  nul homme poet altre vier q'il ne puise a qy q'il voile soun dreit relesser  YBB 30-31 Ed I 357

v.trans.

to forbid: 
( 1319 )  Jeo ne puisse veier a moun tenaunt a terme de vie a lesser son estate  YBB Ed II xxiv 113
This is an AND1 entry © MHRA 1977-1992: reproduced with permission. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
veier_4