apprins
Middle French
editVerb
editapprins m (feminine apprinse, masculine plural apprins, feminine plural apprinses)
- past participle of apprendre
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
- Tant noblement estoient apprins qu'il n'estoit entre eulx celluy ne celle qui ne sceust lire, escripre, chanter, iouer d'instrumens harmonieux, parler de cinq et six langaiges
- They were so well taught that among them there was not one who did not know how to read, write, sing, play musical instruments [and] speak five or six languages.