entortiller (s.xiii)

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entortiller (s.xiii)

[wr/gdw]

  FEW:  *intortiliare 4,768b Gdf:  entortillier 3,270c GdfC:  entortillier 9,484b TL: entorteler 3,612 / entortillier 3,613 DEAF:  entortillier  / entortillier (entorteler)  DMF:  entortiller  TLF: OED:  entortill v.  MED: DMLBS:
entorteillier,  entorteler,  entortiler,  enturciler  

v.a.

1to twist, turn
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  par entortiler la (=a stick) si tire homme le renard hors  113.4
2 med. to wrap up, bandage
( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) bien averoie mestier de celle envolupure pur entortiller les ordes plaies de mes orailles  212.22
med. to wrap inside, appply by means of bandages
( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) ou purroie jeo trover si faitz drapels qe serroient covenables pur entorteler (var. (C: s.xivex) enturciler ) si nobles emplastres et si riches oynementz  207.11

v.refl.

1 med. to wrap, bandage oneself
( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) [...] siqe jeo me puisse en ycelles si belement entortiller et si tresnettement, qe nule ordure ne puisse mes plaies adeser desorenavant  218.7

p.p._as_a.

1 entwined, coiled
( s.xiii; MS: c.1300 ) two snakes se jesoient entorteillié et eschevillés es espoulz et es escuelles  714
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex ) ceo =J.C.'s crown of thorns fust tout une coronne entortillez faite des joncz  103
2 med. bandaged, bound
( 1354; MS: c.1360 ) jeo supplie tresaffectuousement qe voz plese qe l'orde plaie de mon nees soit [...] si entortillee einz qe riens ne puisse desoremes adeser qe la plaie grever puisse  216.9
entortillure  tortiller 
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