1to keep (from), prevent:
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
ne puis
abstenir Mon las [de] quor de sovenir De la grante feste
3181
1to abstain (from):
(
s.xiii1/3;
MS: s.xivin
)
Ne puis
abstiner de plur
4212
(
1401;
MS: s.xv1
)
parmy ce que lui plerra
absteigner de donner tielx revenuz et comoditees
401.14
1to restrain oneself:
(
MS: 1120-40
)
Quant ot li pedre le clamor de sun filz, Plurent si oil, ne s’en puet astenir
222
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Ne se poet
atenir […] Si s’est vers H. hastet
(O) 5143
(
1181-85;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
il ne deit manger de frut […] Se si n’est ke seit malade U il eit le quer si fade Ke il ne se pusse
atenir
1191
(
s.xiiim;
MS: s..xiiiex
)
l’apostle a peine se pout
atenir de plor
(l. plorer?)
62.235
(
MS: s.xiiim
)
Ne se pot
astenir en nule maniere Qu’il revisiter n’alast sa surrur
454
♦
to abstain (from):
(
1165-80?;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Dunc s’
estint l’altre de pechier
289.34
(
1150-70;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
Chulcher m’en voil ore en cest lit E si m’
astendrai del delit
627
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii1
)
blans dras li convient vestir k’il portera, et
abstenir soi de char de columb
293
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xivin
)
il ne se pount abstinir
(ms. abestiner, emended by scribe to abstiner) De fere lour charnel desire
207
(
MS: s.xiiim
)
De vin vus
estenez
5129
(
1354;
MS: c.1360
)
moy
abstiner (ed. meuz abstiner) de choses qe ly male aggrege
153
2politeness (as politeness formula) to refrain from:
(
1410;
MS: s.xv1
)
please a vostre gracieuse hautesse soy
absteigner des ore de moy chargier outre poair
396.26
1abstention:
(
1150-70;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
Quant m’astienc del naturel fait Ki nos deit lier en amur De l’
astenir vient la haur
573
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