empresser1 (c.1185)
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empresser1 (c.1185)

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  FEW:  pressare 9,362a Gdf:  empresser 3,73c GdfC:  empresser (s') 9,446a TL: empresser 3,136 DEAF:  presser (empresser)  DMF:  empresser  / empressé  TLF:  empresser (s')  OED:  empress v.  / impress v.1  MED:  impressen v.  DMLBS:  impressare 1268b
enpresser,  enpressier;  impresser;  enpreissier  

v.a.

1to press, importune: 
( 1355 )  Et tant empressa le dit ducs [...] qe le ducs lui promist qe l’alliance se prendroit  ii 264
2to crush, stamp upon: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Meint vassal i out defulé E meint esteint e empressé  4928
♦to oppress: 
( 1378 )  voz liges […] sont empressez par destresses pris [..]  iii 45
3 mil. to press in on, attack forcefully: 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) Les vis tornez as genz salvalges, E les dos chescon a son frere, Com se tuit fussent d’un pere. Li Sarazin les empresserent Tant que treis morz nos il laisserent  7250
empresser en
1to impress upon, imprint on: 
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  Et en celle roche est empressé la fourme de son corps qar il se ferist si durement en la roche  168
empresser sur
1to press (down) upon: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  od [...] le puing senestre enpreissié sur le penil, od memes les dois traitiez le col de la veissie  i 80

v.refl.

1 to be forceful, assert oneself: 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) E quant vint as lances beissier E il s’en deust mielz enpressier Si s’en fuie  2547

p.p._as_a.

1impressed, stamped: 
( 1360 )  Donné souz nostre privé seal ovesqes le signet de nostre anelle impressé en le dos de meisme nostre seal  ii 303
empreindre  empression  impresse  impressure 
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