espardre (1113-19)
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espardre (1113-19)

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[ FEW: 12,133a spargere; Gdf: 3,509c espardre; GdfC: ∅; TL: 3,1148 espardre; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  espardre; TLF: ∅; OED:  esparse v.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 3142b spargere ]
 

v.a.

1to spread: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii2 )  Li soleilz [...] Ses raiz gete e espart  1224

p.p._as_a.

1spread out: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  de tant come cinc sens sont plus espars foreinement [...]  196.8
♦dispersed: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Quant les chivalers [...] sunt espars e alez por eus aeiser  141.19
♦scattered, spangled: 
( 1300; MS: s.xiv1 )  Fesse vaire ot el rouge escu De trois flours de lis de or espars  110.389
♦wild, dishevelled: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  [...] ki ait ses crins espars et ses mains estendues  291
2fig. eaten up, consumed: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: c.1275 )  je vus defend de par Deu ke vus ne auget en ignorance de vostre juvente ne en fornicacion en la quele je sui espardu (Latin: fornicatio in qua effusus sum) e maculai le lit mun pere Jacob  613
3far away: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  puis ke il est ore par autri si tres loinz espars e espanduz  193.16
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