adverser1 (c.1135)
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adverser1 (c.1135)

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  FEW:  adversarius 24,198a Gdf:  aversier 1,521c GdfC:  adversaire 1 8,37a TL: aversaire 1,728 / aversier 1,729 DEAF:  aversaire  / aversaire (aversier)  DMF:  adversaire  / adversier  / aversier  TLF:  adversaire  OED:  adversary n. and a.  MED:  adversarie n.  DMLBS:  adversarius 37a
adversair,  adversaire,  adversairie,  adversare,  adversari,  adversarie;  adverseir,  adverseire,  adversere,  adverserie,  adverserre,  adversier;  aversaire,  aversairie;  averseire,  averser,  aversere,  aversier,  aversire,  adverseor  59,  adverserer,  adversoir  ii 316  

a.

estre adverser a
1to be opposed, hostile to: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Ore fet a saver ki seit averser e contrarius a ço k'ai dit ici  132.50
♦ to be contrary to, in breach of: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  S’il ruvast as Gius treu doner A la lei serreit adverser  167vb6

s.

1mil.enemy, adversary (in battle, fight, etc.): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Maleuré, fui, tien ta veie, Ainz que li adversiers te veie  11388
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Trestuit apresté de mal fere. Ly enemi, ly aversere Dunc se desrengent e desreient […]  2070
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Vers l’averser enprent l’atie  4719
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Si porra il naverer son aversairie  15.22
( 1343 )  Phelip’ de Valoys, adverser nostre dit seignur le roi  vi 25
( 1389 )  d’aler contre son dit adversair (=the King of France)  iii 257
♦chessgamesopponent (in a game of chess): 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiv1 )  […] soun adversarie mater Ov un pount erraunt en mylu de l’eschecker  38.609
♦lawopponent, opposing party (in court): 
( c.1260; MS: c.1300 )  si l’un e l’autre des adversaries apparisseint en la curt […]  5
( 1292-93 )  envers ses adverseors  59
( 1304 )  si mesire seyt vostre adversari en un play q’est ceynz […]  32-33 Ed I 341
( 1307-10 )  si ele ceo ne vousist qu’il li serreit auxi graunt adverserer (l. adverser?) pur les ditz R. et E. […] qe il seust e peust  279.22
( 1321 )  soun adversare vint […] et entra un nounsute sour ly  Ed II xxvi 340
♦theol.adversary, devil: 
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Li Sains Espir del ciel descende E d'aversaire les defende  660 (A)
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Des amis Deu ke en teu peine Li adverser si mau demeine  218
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Icest prestre […] Haunt a tant un ord pecché, Dunt le adversaire l’ont encumbré  255.20
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  nostre angle […] ke nus defent tut dis des malignes espiriz, ceo est de enfernaus aversiers (var. (BN: s.xivin) adversaries)  66.22

prep.?

1 in opposition to: 
( 1344 )  la partie adversaire nostre seignur le roi  i 300
advers  adversance  adversement  adverser#2  adversité  aversion 
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