acoucher (1160-74)

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acoucher (1160-74)

  FEW:  collocare 2/ii,908b Gdf:  acolchier 1,63c GdfC:  acouchier 8,27c TL: acouchier 1,120 DEAF:  couchier (acouchier)  DMF:  accoucher  TLF:  accoucher  OED: MED: DMLBS:
achocher,  acocher,  acochier;  acucher,  aculcher,  aculchier  

v.a.

1to lie with, have sexual intercourse with
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1400 )  le diable […] prist corps [...] et les =lustful women acoucha […] Et eles conceurent  (E) 49va

v.n.

1to lie down
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  et se mist a genoils, acochant a la tere  79.13
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Tel fais (=burden) deit l'em porter e enbracier Qu'il ne l'estoce par desoz a oschier (l. aoschier) (var. (P2: s.xiii4/4) acochier; (L: c.1300) abocheir)  792 (var.)
2to go to bed, sleep
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  li reis [...] A Roem vint, si acocha  ii 224.9097
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E aculchad e jut encuntre lit e mangier ne volt  165
to take to one’s (sick) bed
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  un chivalers […] achocha malades  212

v.refl.

1to go to bed, sleep
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Del lit u il s’est aculchied ne leverat  173
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Les filles Loth, quant unt perdu lur mere, Querent del vin, si enivererent lur pere. L’einzné s’en vet aprés sun pere cucher, Un fiz engendre […] A l’autre nuit s’acucha la puisnee, Amon engendre dunt fu mult lee  (E) 592

p.p._as_a.

1 lying down, prostrated
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Ensement tuit li saint sunt acuchez devant ses piez, e distrent, 'O tu, rachatere del munde, tu es venuz e as fet sicum tu anuncias par les prophetes'  19v
coucher#1  encoucher 
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