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abhorrere

abhorrēre [CL] 1 to abhor, shrink from: a (w. acc.). b (w. ab). c (w. acc. and inf.). d (w. inf.). a licet mulieres sint vitande, non tamen sunt ~ende O. Cheriton Par. 58; delicati qui ~ent medicinas Gilb. I 35. v. l..  b ab omni crimine ~ebat W. Malm. GR IV 312.  c 1268 Dei filius ‥ ~ens in templo negotiationum commercia exerceri Conc. Syn. 781.  d qui Deo famulatur, crimen incurrere mendacii ‥ ~ere solet Ad. Scot OP 546; quam enormiter ‥ vindictam exercuerit, noster explicare stilus ~uit Gir. IK I 10; 1240 quidam etiam ‥ ~ent hoc percipere sacramentum Conc. Syn. 306; 1301 vobis displicere ‥ ~entem Reg. Cant. II 740; rex ‥ eos alloqui ~uit Favent 12. 2 to incur the hatred of. non pungens ramnus, sed oliva nitens, sed adornans / ficus, sed blanda vitis abhorret eos [reprobos] Gower VC I 1020n. 3 (impers.) to be abhorrent. b (pr. ppl. w. ab) abhorrent, offensive (to). quod ~et fari Aldh. Ep. 3.  b illud erat a natura ~ens, quod multi ancillas suas ex se gravidas ‥ venditabant W. Malm. GR III 245.

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