1 agitare
v. agistare(1b)
2 agitare
[CL]
1 to drive or chase. b to set in motion. c to hasten (intr.).
in summis cignos agitabo fugaces
[Aldh. Aen. 57 (Aquila) 4]; 1326 averia ~are
[BB St. Davids 262]; 1406 pro garcione ~ante aratrum
[Ac. Durh. 222]; 1428 ~anti currum prioris
[Ib. 621]; 1527 ad ~andum ‥ eosdem [boves]
[Reg. Aberbr. II 474]. b cernua quae graditur tremulis agitata lacertis
[Aldh. VirgV 599]; dum se sic agitat, dum sic evadere sperat
[Serlo Wilt. app. IIIB 29. 31]. c ~ate, onettad
[GlC A 401].
2 to urge, vex, disturb. b (p. ppl.) keyed up, alert. c to concern, engage.
matrona stimulis agitata maligni
[Aldh. VirgV 1918]; supremo eum ~ante mortis articulo
[G. Steph. I 4]; ita sensu excesserat ut ‥ miserabiliter cerebri turbatione ~aretur
[W. Cant. Mir. Thom. VI 3]; s1463 horrore valido cepit ~are [? l. ~ari]
[Croyl. Cont. B 537]. b s1194 ut [milites] ‥ vegetatiores, ~atiores, exercitatiores reddantur ad prelium
[Diceto YH 120]. c hii quos ~at mundi labor dicunt solis et lune defectus facere aliquid non significare
[Devizes 33 r. p. 35]; hi quos ~at talis labor
[Neckam NR II 166].
3 to pursue (legal action).
pro dape pugnetur, pro conjuge lis agitetur
[Serlo Wilt. app. III B 11. 1]; quod ‥ causam coram aliquibus monachis constitutis judicibus ‥ ~arent
[Ockham Dial. 917].