acliner (s.xii1)
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acliner (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  acclinare 24,76b Gdf:  acliner 1,59b GdfC: ∅ TL: acliner 1,88 DEAF:  acliner  DMF:  acliner  TLF: ∅ OED:  accline v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  acclinare 15b
 

v.a.

1 to bow before: 
( s.xiiex?; MS: s.xiiiex )  Del chef l'acline mult parfund  717
2to lay (down): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  En paistures de erbes aclinad mei (Latin: acclinavit me)  35.XXII.2
3to conciliate, win over: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Par bel amur […] Les aclinat (var. (H: s.xiv1/4) turna) trestuz vers sei  3576

v.n.

1(of day, light etc.) to fade, die: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Le jur est aclinez (var. (C: s.xiiim) declinez), le soleil est abessé  3215
acliner a
1 to be subject, subjugated to: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex ) Ço est la reine, Elftroed a qui cest regne acline  3946

v.refl.

s'acliner a
1 to be sunject, subjugated to: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 ) Custume est anciene [...] Que tuit li blanc abé de ça e de la mer Chascun tierz an se solent a Cistaus asembler; Car a celui se deivent tuit li altre acliner E de trestut lur ordre par sun conseil errer  3684
♦ to accede, come round to: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) Cil heom sun corage domine Ki a quank'il volt ne s'acline  11470
( 1338 )  Et puis H. s’assenti et aclina a cel opinion  11-12 Ed III 633
aclin  aclinance  encliner 
This is an AND1 entry © MHRA 1977-1992: reproduced with permission. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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