adurere

adurere [CL] 1 a to burn, scorch. b to brand. c to cauterize. d to singe (fig.). e to inflame (fig.). a poenis Acherontis adusti Frith. 289; palmam turgore vident carbonis adustam Wulf. Swith. II 393.  b [Paterini] adusti et virgis cesi disparuerunt Map NC I 30.  c artaria timporis, que quandoque flebotomatur, quandoque inciditur, quandoque extrahitur, quandoque ~itur Ps.-Ric. Anat. 44.  d tanquam alis presumptuosi ingenii ‥ adustis Gir. TH I 13.  e maligni, / igne venenosus quos livor adurit edaci Wulf. Swith. I 1107. 2 to overheat (bodily humours), make ‘adust’ (med.). naturalem interius ex adusto humore calorem ‥ trahunt Gir. DK I 15; cito ~itur in eis [sc. avibus rapacibus masculis] cholera et transit in melancholiam Neckam NR I 79 (cf. id. DS II 271: cholere ‥ humor aduste); sperma non ~itur in prima mansione nec ultimate infrigidatur, est tamen in ~i quo ad aliquas partes Gad. 37 v. 1; quando pro speciebus calidis ~itur sanguis Ib. 42 v. l.. 3 (p. ppl. adustus): a (w. creta) burnt lime. b (w. vinum) brandy. a 1502 pro quatuor quarteriis crete ~e Cant. Coll. Ox. II 234.  b 1674 navem ‥ vinis ~is ‥ onustam (Comm. HCA) MS W. Suss Archives Ad. 5380.