enclarcir (s.xiii1)

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enclarcir (s.xiii1)

  FEW:  clarus 2/i,744a Gdf:  enclarcir 3,105a GdfC: TL: enclarcier 3,207 DEAF:  cler (enclarcir)  / esclairier (enclarcier)  DMF:  enclaircir  TLF: OED: MED:  enclersen v.  DMLBS:  inclarescere 1298b
enclarsir,  enclarsyr,  enclarzir,  enclersir  

v.a.

1 to light up, make bright
( MS: s.xiii ) Assit etiam nimphula cuius facies thalamum serenet gloss: enclarzit  i 182.65 and ii 92.65
to make gleam, shine, sparkle with light
( MS: s.xiv1/3 ) Et pus [le] eve deit estre distillez par le feutre, sicum je vus ai dit devont, et ce apelent nos mestres aquam tartaream. Cest eve enclersist touz metaus ben  391.49
2 to make clear
( s.xiii1; MS: c.1365 ) Aloe [...] conforte les membres nervous et destruit la superfluité de freid humurs en l’estomac et enclersist la veue  7.19
to purify, refine
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Habeat etiam pollentrudium et taratantarum, ut illo pollen eliquator gloss: enclersit  i 103.159 and ii 103.159

v.n.

1to become bright(er)
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  Si tost come l’aube enclarsist  1316
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  la nuyt enclarsyst, e le temps enbely  7.1
to gleam, shine, sparkle with light
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  de tant com li mal plus longement dure, de tant en esclarsist  (ms. tant enclarzist) plus vostre coroune  257.29-30 (MS)

p.p._as_a.

1 purified, refined
( MS: s.xiii )  habeat archimacherus capanam in quoquina [...] ubi [...] panem crebro cinseratum enclarci [...] in abdotorio reponat  i 181.61 and ii 109.61
clarified, liquified
( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) ignem pelasgum =Greek fire et vitrum liquefactum gloss: (D*) enclarsi vel fundi  i 200.49 and ii 136.49
clarcir  enclarer  esclarcir 
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