corver1 (s.xii1)
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corver1 (s.xii1)

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[gdw]

  FEW:  curvare 2/ii,1588a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  courver 9,229c TL: courver 2,924 DEAF:  corver  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  curve v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  curvare 543a
courver,  curver,  curvir,  corfer  258  

v.a.

1 to bend: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  devant la face de lui curverunt le genuil (Latin: curvabunt genu)  35.XXI.30
( MS: s.xiii1 )  curvendum: curver  ii 104
corver sur
1to levy: 
( 1334 )  J. de B. […] si ad la summe avantdite […] corvee sur le dit evesque  iv 181

p.p._as_a.

1curved: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Dous cornes ad agues, Trenchanz e esmolues E si sunt endentees Cum facilles curvees  766
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Courvez est, com fauz par semblant  4649
♦bent: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  sudibus vi lentatis: curvis  ii 62
♦bowed (in submission): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Venez, aurums e seiums curvé (Latin: curvemur); flechisums nod [sic] genuilz  175.XCIV.6
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  lur dos seient tut dis curvez  343

p.p._as_s.

1 one who is crooked, has a bent-over posture: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiiex )  Icist (=Jesus) a certes garist les sors et les clops et les curvés et les paralitikes  16
acorver  corf#3  corver#2  encorver  recorvé 
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