demenuser (c.1240)

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demenuser (c.1240)

  FEW:  minutiare 6/ii,132a Gdf:  demenuisier 2,499a GdfC: TL: demenuisier 2,1372 DEAF:  menuise (demenuisier)  DMF:  diminuiser  TLF: OED:  diminish v.  MED:  diminishen v,  DMLBS:  deminuere 606c
 

v.n.

1to reduce
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  si li donez trois foiz crepes [...] e quant noef jorz se sunt passez, si manjuce en demenusant un  i 79
( 1406 )  les marchants [...] ount [...] pur lour singuler avauntage demenusés les tonels & pipes d’oille graunt quantité de lour droiturele mesure d’assise  iii 596
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