auxquels ils croyaient, to whom they ascribed

1. 13. ne manquaient point à leurs principes, were not forsaking or belying their principles (L.L. maticare, from mancus, mutilated). The Word manquer governing the dative, as it does hère, seeras to be strictly synonymous with mentir, to lie. See Littré's Diction, s. v. manquer, where the following Hue is quoted, amongst the examples : "la color pert, li cuers lui mant."