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alluere

alluere [CL] , to wash (of sea, etc.). b (fig.) to pollute. aestus ‥ terras adluit et resilit Bede TR 29 (cf. ib. 5: aquarum diffusio omnem ~entium terram); continens munitionem hinc marino gurgite ~ente inaccessam G. Steph. I 37; de Castro Novo quod fluvius Thynus ~it W. Cant. Mir. Thom. VI 75; palus ‥ que menia urbis aquilonalia ~it W. Fitzst. Thom. prol. 17.  b criminum quibus humanum genus adluitur causa Felix Guthl. 45.

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