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artitudo

artitudo , narrowness, confined space. b strictness, harshness, austerity. propter vie ~inem equum ‥ circumflectere minime poterat Hist. Meriadoci 388; 1314 loca eis sub cloacis preparantur ‥, quorum locorum vix ultra spacium lecti ‥ continet ~o Flor. Hist. III 163 (cf. Rec. Eng. Dom. 109); s1066 qui propter loci ~inem ‥ ab Haraldo se subtraxerunt Higd. VI 29 p. 246; s1400 plures [puerorum] ‥ pedibus calcati locorumque ~ine oppressi moriebantur Ad. Usk 45; s1411 dum meticulose fugiunt, per ~inem tabularum cadentes in flumine demerguntur [Wals. YN 434: in flumen] Wals. HA II 286.  b s1244 in insulam Farne secessit, ‥ ubi in religionis ~ine ‥ residuum vite egit Graystanes 5; religiosos nonnullos ad majorem ~inem quam regula eorum contineat obligando Ockham I. & P. 44; a1389 exaltabit te contra ~inem miserie Brinton Serm. 9 p. 29; starknesse, rigiditas, ~o PP.

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