communer3 (s.xii1)
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communer3 (s.xii1)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,962a communis; Gdf: 2,198c communer; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,646 comuner; DEAF:  comun (comuner 1); DMF:  communer; TLF: ∅; OED:  common v.; MED:  communen v.; DMLBS: 398a communare 1 ]
communere,  communier;  comunier,  comuner,  comigner;  cummunier  

v.a.

1to share: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  Ne vot cel bien (=an edifying book) sule celer, Mes ou Modwen comunier  238
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  chescun home ki d’alt[r]e aprent Od sun doctur deit comuigner De tuz ses biens sanz demander  60va13
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  reson est ke tuz autri biens seient a vus comons, puis ke vus comunez vostre bien a tuz  7.3
♦eccl.liturgicalto receive (sacrament): 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  por ceo [qe] chesqun Cristien deit estre comunié au meyns le jour de Paske mout devoutement  39.30
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  les Engleis les fesoint confesser […] et lour sacramentz de seinte esglise communere  25.20

v.n.

1to share: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ki volenters comunera, E Deu volenters li durra  661
♦theol.to communicate, receive communion: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  humme repariller En grace par pecché parduner - A ces ke membres sunt (var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) communé vnt) sulement  7445
2 to associate (with), have relations (with): 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) ne communierai ot les esliz d'elz  128.140.5
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  il les asoleit tuz […] del pechié Qu’as escumeniez orent communié  4590
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  (the cured leper must) od la gent comunier  148ra1
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  qe nul atiels […] ne lour doyne a manger ne a boyre ne ovekes eux ne commune en nule manere  i 65
♦to live together: 
( MS: s.xiiim )  Pur ce pri cummuniun (=sbj.pr.5) (var. (H: c.1335) communiun ) cum feimes devant  2439
3to take counsel, discuss (with): 
( 1383 )  vous […] veuilliez comuner diligeaument sur cestes matires  iii 151
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  nous assignerons nostre Conseil de comuner ovec vous et ordeigner le mielx que nous purrons en ce fait  305.24
( 1481-82 )  je ay communé en ceo point ové doctourz  ii 49.6
4lawlivestockto have right of common (over land): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et sunt autres personeles acciouns […] cum est de communer a un abevrour ovek ses avers  i 176
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  vos foresters […] ont ore tard destourbez mes tenantz […] pour communer ovesque leur bestes en la pasture du dit forest  151.4
♦lawlivestockto be grazed in common: 
( 1303 )  ceaux ount graunté les treis parties de totes lé caump’ W. de B. […] a communer […] a totes maners des avers  iii 34

v.refl.

1 to associate (with), have relations (with): 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  li fiz Israel se comunierent a un pecchur  ii 23
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