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verseiller (s.xii3/4)
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verseiller (s.xii3/4)

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versailler,  versalier,  verseiler,  verseler,  versiler,  versilier,  versiller,  versillier  

v.trans.

1to chant (responses etc.): 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Tant cum l'en la messe chanta, Ura li clers e verseilla Les ures de sainte Marie  ADGAR3 242.154
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Saumes verseiller e lesçun lire  Lum Lais ANTS 11073
2to read aloud, out: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  lire Aristotle e Solin versiler  (ms. verfiler)  Rom Chev ANTS 1339
3to versify (about), put into verse: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  A, morte! cum dure e cum amere Est ta memorie a verseiller  Evang1 360

v.intrans.

to chant responses: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  od li ne devez vous versillier ne chaunter  Ancren1 31.9

sbst. inf.

chanting: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  de malement dire la (=in church) le office Deu ..., ceo est a dire par distraccion de quer ou par indevocion, ou par trop versilier, par cincoper  Ancren2 110.11
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