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afferre [CL] 1 to bring: a (persons); b (things). a [virguncula] ante theatrales spectaculi clatros ‥ allata Aldh. VirgP 46; nonne allatus eo poteris rogitare Tonantem? Wulf. Swith. II 1032.  b astulae ‥ ad infirmos adlatae citam illis solent adferre medellam Bede HE IV 6; 10‥ adfero, ic tobere WW; veniente comitissa in manerium, ~ebantur ei xviii orae den. DB I 253b; Anselm III 29 (v. auferre 1a); attuleram plenam, vacuam queror esse crumenam Serlo Wilt. 21. 1; s1307 allatum est corpus regium a Burgo ‥ usque ad Waltham. Ann. Paul. 257. 2 a to bring forward (a plea). b to bring about (an effect), inspire. c to herald, usher in. a a1350 reus per se suam ~at defensionem StatCantab 323.  b cui tantum attulit securitatis ‥ quantum Romanis intulerat formidinis Map NC II 17.  c purumque aurora sciendi / allatura diem Hanv. VII 352.

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