cliner1 (1121-25)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

Search Results

Your search results will appear here.

cliner1 (1121-25)

Cite this entry
[ FEW: 2/i,783a clinare; Gdf: 2,154a cliner; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,505 cliner; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  cliner; TLF: ∅; OED:  cline v.; MED:  clinen v.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
 

v.a.

1to incline, bend down: 
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Sun chief ad cliné, Vers Orient turné  1015
( c.1160; MS: s.xiiim )  Estent le col, cline l’oreille  1725
2to make subject, subordinate: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  En icel an Ecbrith li reis Clinat a sei les Norwaleis  2350
3to rest: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  ne avoit il nul liu ou il sa teste poeit mettre ne encliner (var. cliner (BN)MS: s.xivin)  11.8

v.n.

1to incline, lean: 
( c.1170 )  si ferm ester l’unt (=the crozier) veue […]; Si ne cline de nule part  5816
2to bow down: 
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Arbre lui clinera E ewe retrerra  490
( c.1160; MS: s.xiiim )  Cline e dit: 'Benedicite'  2430
cliner parfunt, parfundement
1 to bow deeply, make a low bow: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Clinet parfunt e humlement; Le abét e tuz baiser enprent  659
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Il li clinat parfundement  1363

v.refl.

1to bow down: 
( c.1230?; MS: s.xiiim )  A tant la dame vers li se cline, Si li seigne la pestrine  2031
2to decline: 
( 1213; MS: 1213 )  […] Tant q’om veit q’a sa fin se cline (=this present world)  139vb

p.pr._as_a.

1subject: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  Pur sa nobilited grant Tut [si] veisin li sunt clinant  5964
recliner  suzcliner 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
cliner_1