auster1 (s.xiii2/4)
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auster1 (s.xiii2/4)

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  FEW:  austerus 25,1071b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  austere 8,240c TL: auster 1,685 DEAF:  auster  DMF:  austère  TLF:  austère  OED:  austere a. and n.  MED:  austere a.  DMLBS:  austerus 165b
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1austere, strict, severe: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Mes coment pout aparer par quel reisun Ensemblement deboneire e felun? Ke as bons deboneire appara, As mauveis auster resemblera  13114
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Tenez les mout estreit, kar justise par dreit deit estre auster  34.28
♦ ascetic, subject to rigorous self-discipline: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le quint (=chapter) recunte la manere De sa (=St. Francis’s) haute vye et mut austere  18
2austere, harsh: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Les mauveis averunt grant hidur E de regarder le grant pour, Ke il lur apparra si hauster Ke n'oserunt oil en li ficher  13109
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  aussi souef e deboneires […] ausi auster e corucez  56.30
♦oenol.(of wine) sour, bitter tasting: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  vin blanc austeres et dur et auques stiptiques  i 187
austerement  austerité 
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