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sullever (s.xii1)

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[FEW: 5,274a levare; Gdf: 7,581a sublever; GdfC: 10,702c souslever; TL: 9,950 soslever; DEAF:  lever / soslever; DMF:  soulever / sublever; TLF:  soulever; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: 3243a sublevare]
sollever;  souzlever,  sozlever,  sozliver;  suislever,  suslever,  susliever,  suzlever  

Etymologically, the verb can be interpreted either as derived from Latin sublevare (accounting for variants with the suz prefix, from sub) or as a vernacular combination of the verb lever1 and the adverb sus2 (from Latin sursum, accounting for the variants with sus – Latin does not have any attestations of a verb *sursumlevare). Semantically, both constructions would have overlapped completely.

v.a.

1to raise, lift up
( MS: 1120-40 )  Les dras suzlevet dunt il esteit cuvert  346
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  La teste de son frere susleve E sur sa palme en haut le tent  12250
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Cele curtine ert sus levé [...] par vertu de la Marie  231.LIV.44
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1315-25 )  poez ver Jesu Crist de fin quer La destre mein suislever, Sa beneisun a lui doner  2015
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  les peres dont l'em le lapidout le susleverent en haut au ciel  219.13
2to raise to a standing position
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  Un an entier e pres demi, Ke il unc ne se pout remuer De sun lit, ne sur pez ester, Si nel suslevassent la gent  4975
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  gardein de la tumbe [le] =sick man susleveit, E tantost les nerfs ke estreint esteient Estreperent [...]  M350
to erect, set up
( c.1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Les furches ot [...] En un halt tertre suslevees  6912
3emotionto hearten, uplift, cheer
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  [...] Com sis espirz lu souzleva  15032
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Si tes = J.C.'s doz regua[r]z me sollieve, Lors ne serra rienz qi me greve  3347
4to raise in status or condition, elevate, advance
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  E eslist David le suen serf, susleva lui des fulcs des oeilles  90.77.76
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  E sulleverad (Latin: sublevabit) le povre de suffraite, e poserad sicume genz les maisnées  202.CVI.41
mil.to support, strengthen
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Tu desturnas la force del glaive de lui, e ne suzlevas lui en bataille (Latin: et non sublevasti eum in praelio)  165.LXXXVIII.44
5to remove, take away
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E quant vus verrez l'enflure del constrictorie reprint, dunc baingniez le malade en ewe chaude e fomentez, le constrictorie suslevez (Latin: elevetur)  i 74
6to provoke
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Tresque sun mal pensé achieve, Orgoil le demeine e sozlive De ses levres mordre u mascher  9812

v.absol.

1to raise in status or condition, elevate, advance
( MS: 1155-60 )  Li Sire fait povre e enrichist, humiliet e suzlevet (Latin: Dominus pauperem facit et ditat, humiliat et sublevat)  266.10

v.n.

1to lift, rise
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Donc li torne la buch[e] et si estreint les dens Et li pis li sozleve asés amarement =painfully  ii 91.378
2to rise, straighten to an upright position
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1315-25 )  ‘Arbre,’ dist il, ‘ore suislevet E en estant vus dresset!’  243
to rise to a standing position
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Iluec chairent li uvrant felunie; debutet sunt, e ne pourent sus lever (Latin: non potuerunt surgere)  60.XXXV.12
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Jeo vus comand [...] ke [...] del lit seyn sus levez  70.308
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  Donqes David de soun list irrousement suis leva  25.38
to rise from the dead
( c.1325; MS: c.1325 )  coment les genz enterrez susleverent et estereyent sure lurs toumbes  66.75.11
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  il = J.C. est suslevee, et le nuwe lui supprist de lour =apostles' oels  (A) 362a
3emotionto gladden, become elated
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  De joie fu cil si esbai Cum un homme ke fust ravi; Mult li suzleve le queor et le ventre  251.LVIII.249

v.refl.

1to rise to a standing position
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Quant Gudmod out joé, si s'en est sus levé E la u il einz sist s'e[n] est seeir alé  2774

p.pr._as_s.

1one who lifts, picks someone up
( MS: s.xiv2 )  Way al soleyn, car quant il chait, il ne ad nul suslevaunt  197v

p.p._as_a.

1elevated, advanced (in status or condition)
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Li Sire fait povre e enrichist, humilied e suzleved  133.III.10
2decor.raised, in relief
( MS: s.xii-xiii )  Peritus debet esse tam in opere plumali quam in opere anaglaphario gloss: suslevé  i 189.71 and ii 90.171
( MS: s.xii-xiii )  anaglafarium: sullevé  ii 87.66
lever#1  sus#3  suz#1 
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