attaminare

attaminare [LL], attamiare [cf. OF atamer] 1 to contaminate, defile, dirty. b (fig.) to debase. c to dung. ~inat, inquinat GlC A 867; tentantium vitiorum sorde ~inari Bede Tab. 430; s552 corruptior ‥ celi tractus egrescentibus elementis civitatem ~inans Diceto Chr. 97; non audebat ‥ indumentorum pontificalium sancta immundis contactibus ~inare R. Cold. Cuthb. 26; to defoulle, ~inare, †attarere, ‥ coinquinare CathA.  b ni ‥ hujus opusculi diffinitionem degeneri vitiorum stilo ‥ ~inando foedarem B. V. Dunst. 1.  c 1376 ~inabunt mariscum cum vaccis, bovettis et boviculis IMisc 208/4. 2 to broach (casks or liquor). b to open up (a cargo). c (?) to cut into (w. ref. to felons’ chattels; cf. 3 infra). d to broach (fig.), begin discussion of. adtaminat, usurpat GlC A 188; precones vini clamant gula yante vinum ataminatum [gl.atamyd, affore; (?) pun on 1a supra] in tabernis Garl. Dict. 126; 1290 item ij sextaria vini de uno doleo primo atamiato Ac. Swinfield 107; 1291 volens ~iasse dictum doleum et vendidisse (St. Ives) Law Merch. I 52; 1292 precipimus quod conventus noster habeat ‥ singulis annis unum doleum vini clari et purissimi et quod illud doleum primo ~ietur die anniversarii nostri Reg. Malm. II 380; 1305 j kempe allec’ ~eat’ de stauro Middleton MSS (HMC) 326 (cf. ib. 324: athameat’); ataymyd, as a vessel with drink, ~inatus PP.  b 1290 discarcata nave vel ~inata ‥ de venalibus percipiet dominus rex custumam suam RParl I 28.  c 1368 clamat habere omnes pannos talliatos seu ~iatos [Collect. Staffs XVI 20: †attanuatos] et omnes carnes ~iatas et totum braseum infra quarterium et omnia blada inventulata infra j quarterium PlRChester 71 r. 32d..  d 1313 ad omnia placita hac vice ‥ ~inata terminandum Eyre Kent I 1 (cf. ib. p. 15: le plee attame; ib. (v. atterminare 1b)); 1360 ita quod nulla querela in eodem hundredo de villis predictis ~iari potuit Pat 259 m. 4; 1367 neque resortum aliquod coram eo propositum seu ~iatum fuit (LTR Mem 139) Camd. Misc. XIX (Sovereignty of Aquitaine) 53. 3 to bolt, sift (flour). 1326 bedellus habebit de farina in quocumque vase ~inata BB St. Davids 238; bedelli consueverunt habere de bonis felonum farinam ~inatam Ib. 256; bultyn flowre, ~ino PP.