enmenuser (s.xiii1)

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enmenuser (s.xiii1)

[gdw]

  FEW:  minutiare 6/ii,132b Gdf:  enmenuiser 3,203a GdfC: TL: enmenuisier 3,457 DEAF:  menuise (enmenuisier)  DMF:  emmenuiser  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  imminuere 1229a
 

v.n.

1 to diminish, decline (in quality)
( 1267; MS: c.1300 ) Ausi fu ceo, en verité, Del sinagoge meimes la reisun Ke en la transmigraciun [...] De sun estat enmenuseit  4472
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Humeine cors, devez saver, K’est vessel de beivre e mangier, Enmenusez est e remenez En la matire, bien le saciez  1518
to shrink, grow (physically) smaller
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Par ces signes se mustera li malade ki tost mura: […] le ventre descrestera, le oil senestre enmenusera  167.4
amenuser  esmenuser  menuser 
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