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adimere

adimere [CL] , to take away. b (as euphem. for death). ademto, †gebinumini GlC A 206 (cf. EE 341. 34: adempta,binumni); quo ‥ / redderet auditum misero miseratus ademptum Wulf. Swith. II 487; 10‥ ademptam, genumene, ‥ oðbrogen WW; 797 dies quae ‥ lunari aetati adempta [v. l. adepta] est Alcuin Ep. 126 p. 186; s1035 majorem partem ademit illi tyrannice Fl. Worc. I 190; [livor] adimit virtutis odorem / nariculis fame Hanv. VI 328; 1356 in xlviij acris dim. ‥ bladi metendis, ligandis et adhimendis Crawley 273; s1399 ipsius [Ricardi] anulo ‥ in signum deposicionis ‥ adempto Ad. Usk 32.  b fortuitis ademptam casibus [Eugeniam] Aldh. VirgP 44; fugit igitur rege adempto totus ejus exercitus H. Hunt. HA II 30.

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