suppodiare

suppodiare, ~ere, ~ire [cf. suppodium] 1 to furnish (structure) with supportive timberwork, ‘prop’. b to support, hold or prop up (person). c (fig.) to prop up, support. 1297 in datis ‥ pro vineis cindendis et mundandis, ~iendis et ligandis xij d. Ac. Cornw 95; 1297 in stipendiis ‥ ad taschiam colligencium palos ad curtas vineas ~iendas ‥ xviij d. Ib. 132; a1307 de busca prostrata ad mineram meremiandam et ~iandam (Mines) KR Ac 260/19 m. 3; 1322 in stipendiis ij carpentariorum emendancium et ~iencium j domum bercar' [? l. bercarie] MinAc 1146/11 m. 11 (cf. Building in Eng. 201).  b si sanus cubitas [gl.: cubito te ~ias, v. l. apodias super accubitum] in cena non rude vitas Garl. Mor. Scol. 581; duobus ~iata cruculis [puella] reptantium pocius more quam hominum incedendo Mir. Hen. VI II 41; decrepitum ‥ duorum validissimorum virorum humeris ~iari ‥ cernebant Ib. II 57.  c pertinax ‥ nulla racione fundamentaliter firma ‥ in assercione subpodiatus E. Thrip. SS VIII 1; probacionibus tuam subpodiare firmiusve ‥ solidare racionem Ib. IX 10. 2 (of prop) to support. stipites malum ~iantes [gl.: apuans] Neckam Ut. 115 (v. parastates). 3 (in list of words). stipare, fulcire, subniti, ~iare [v. l. appodiare] Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 555.