atiffer (s.xii3/4)
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atiffer (s.xii3/4)

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  FEW:  *tipfôn 17,332a Gdf:  atufier 1,492a GdfC:  atifer 8,229a TL: atifer 1,640 DEAF:  tifer (atifer)  DMF:  attifer  TLF:  attifer  OED:  atiffe v.  MED:  atiffen v.  DMLBS: ∅
atifer,  athipher  

v.a.

1 to adorn, beautify: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Pur pleisir as oianz l’ay (=my narrative) un poy atiffé  6647

v.refl.

1cosmet.jewel.costumeto bedeck, adorn oneself (with ornaments, jewellery, clothes, etc.): 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) Les puceles [...] Mut cointement tost se atifferent  1803
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Li mirurs est pur enseigner Cument hum se deit atiffer  166
s'atiffer de, en
1 cosmet.jewel.costume to bedeck, adorn oneself with (ornaments, jewellery, clothes, etc.): 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Mult se atiffent la les femmes De or e de argent  9213
♦ lang. to adorn, embellish oneself with (flowery language or rhetoric): 
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 )  Ceste Apokalipse [...] ad autaunz de sacremenz cum il i ad moz, kar en muz moz s’atifent muz entendemenz (Latin: In verbis singulis multiplices latent intelligentie)  6

p.p._as_a.

1cosmet.jewel.costumeadorned, attired, decked out (with ornaments, jewellery, clothes, etc.): 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Unques puis ne vie nul ensi atiffez  3876
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Ne tienent pleit de estre vestues, Ne que seient atiffees Sulung le us de autres cuntrees  9173
( MS: s.xiii2 )  cultas: atyffés  ii 7
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Jerusalem […] atyffee Cum espuse de sun barun aurnee  3938
( MS: s.xiv )  cho[o]rnata: athiphés  ii 58
♦lang.ornate, embellished with flowery language or rhetoric: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Diseit ses enveisures e ses gas atiffez  770
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Parole atiffé et feitiz, En confessiun, ad le deable apris  10239
atiffement  atiffure  tiffer 
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