1lawto take away unlawfully, embezzle, steal, misappropriate:
(
1327
)
[...] qe eux acomptent [...] d’ascunes vitailles le roi enbeseillez
175
(
1399
)
queux fynes et autres recordez […] sont traiez et embesceilez hors du tresorie le roy
iii 435
(
1433
)
lez customers & countrollours embesilent lez customes du Roi
ii 288
2to destroy:
(
1321-22
)
par procurement des ses adversaries, et pur
(l. par) lour donaunt, les
(=writs) ad ousté et abesilié
i 400
♦
to wipe out, get rid of:
(
1374
)
lour baillast cccc. marcz [...] pur enbeciler les tortz q’ils avoient faitz au roy
194
3to impair:
(
1334
)
[...] par quei processe le droit le roy purra estre embesillé
ii 75
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