† fruishv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To enjoy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > be pleased with [verb (transitive)] > take pleasure in or enjoy
likeOE
joyc1330
love1340
fruishc1450
enjoy1462
to enjoy of?1521
to have the honour1525
relish1580
jouise1598
taste1605
palate1609
to get a kick out of1928
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxiii. 92 I may not fruisshe tho iocunde clippinges that are redy to holy spirites.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xviii. 86.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lvi. 133.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > [adverb] > in a state of enjoyment
fruiblyc1450
fruishinglyc1450
comfortably1563
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lxiii. 147 Gone all & hool into þe loue of me, in whom þei reste fruisshingly.
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v.c1450- to take with one
- to take with the foot
- to take witness by
- to take witness of
- to take wrack
- to take wrack on one
- to take years from a person
- to take years off a person
- to take, accept, receive in gree
- to take, catch the fancy of
- to take, cry, call a truce
- to take, cry, call truce
- to take, give career
- to take, give oneself career
- to take, give some thing career
- to take, have one's full swing
- to take, have one's swing
- to take, have, get, gain the wind of
- to take, keep one's own line
- to take, lay down, resign the fasces
- to take, make, set count of
- to take, make, set count of by
- to take, make, set count of upon
- to take, make, set no count of
- to take, make, set no count of by