enracher (c.1170)

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enracher (c.1170)

[gdw]

  FEW:  eradicare 3,235a Gdf: GdfC: TL: enrachier 3,488 DEAF:  enrachier  DMF:  enracher  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
enracer,  enrascer,  enraser,  enrasier,  enrasser,  henracer  

v.a.

1 to uproot, pull out by the roots
( MS: s.xiii1 )  Habeat et ligones quibus tirsos extirpet gloss: henracet et intubas, urticas, errvos [sic], lollium, carduos, avenas steriles  i 186.160 and ii 104.160
2 to tear out, remove forcefully
( 1397 )  ses fenestres, serures et plumb enracerent, ousterent […]  iii 361
to tear off, remove forcefully
( c.1170; MS: s.xiii1 ) Kar le senestre pied del sengler si mordrat Que ele fors del cors trestot l’enrascerat  156.369
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Sun blialt =tunic […] En tante peces depecé esteit Que chascun en sun poig porta Une piece, qu’il enraça  5854
( 1329-30 )  donqes feust le seal enrasé et cosue arere a la chartre  3-4 Ed III 688
ven. to skin (by pulling the skin over the head)
( MS: s.xivm ) Touz ceaus que sunt escorchez portent quirs, e tous ceaus que sunt enrachez portent peaus (var. (G: s.xiv2) Tous ceux qe sont enracés portont pauls )  96.B138
3to tear, destroy
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  (the dragon) ly fery en l’eschu qu’il l’enracha parmy  47.28
to destroy, tear down (cf. enraser 1)
( 1260; MS: c.1300 )  enracha mesons e destruit terres e tenemenz  21
law to quash, bring to an end
( 1391 )  debruserunt et enrasserunt la dit obligacion  iii 299
enracher de
1 to tear out, remove forcefully from
( 1332; MS: s.xivex ) la vulté de cowardise est reet et enrasiez de coers et desheritez pur toutz  377
aracher  esracher  racher 
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