abrever (s.xii3/4)
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abrever (s.xii3/4)

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  FEW:  abbreviare 24,26a Gdf:  abrevier 1,34b GdfC: ∅ TL: abrever 1,64 DEAF:  brief (abriever)  DMF:  abrévier  TLF:  abrévié  OED:  abrevy v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  abbreviare 3a
abbrever  

v.a.

1to abbreviate: 
( 1323 )  en cele remembraunce ne soient qe abbrevé tutes les choses qi sont a deliverer en la forme avantdite  888
( 1416 )  qe les ditz jours de paiementz ne soient abrevez ne chaungez en ascune manere  iv 95
2to enrol, register: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  N’ot si povere donc qe ne fut abrevé (var. (P: c.1310) enbrevé) E al bref Alisandre son non enroulé  1063
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Cesar Auguste out comandé Que tut li mund fust abrevé  1635
( MS: s.xiv2 )  sessaunte simeignes sont abrevez (Latin: abbreviate) sur ton poeple  287va
abreger  abrevement  abreviation  abrevience  enbrever 
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