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disconfitura

disconfitura [cf. AN discunfiture, OF desconfiture] , discomfiture, defeat. 1202 ante discomfituram de Mirabel AssizeR Northants 91; 1223 unde ipse W. fuit seisitus post ~am [v. l. discumfituram] Lincoln’ CurR XI 808; 1226 post ~am Francorum in mari Cl 142b; s1239 discumfitura facta est in terra Sancta contra Christianos per superbiam militum Francie Ann. Tewk. 114; s1265 in †discumfutura Kelingwrth’ contra ipsum dominum regem capti JustIt 618 r. 14; duello eventum victorie seu discumfiture non assecuto Meaux II 101n; 1276 usque †disconfitam [MS: disconfituram] de Northampton’ Hund. II 129; 1295 prisones captos in discumfitura facta super Maddok (MiscR Exch. Rec.) EHR XXXIX 8; s1298 quia [non] venit ad pacem post desconfecturam apud le Faukyrke Pri. Cold. app. xci (cf. ib.: post disconfecturam); s1332 facta discomfitura de fugacione revertentes, ‥ ubi fuerat prelium convenerunt G. Ed. III Bridl. 107 (cf. ib. 148).

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