circumdare

circumdare [CL] 1 (w. dat.) to put round, wrap round, don. nova ‥ indumenta corpori ‥ ~date Bede HE (V. Cuthb. 42) IV 28; RegulC 66 (v. cuculla 1a); arca ‥ cui corona aurea ~dari precipitur Ad. Scot TT 661A. 2 to encircle, enclose (w. something). accinctus est qui cingulo ~datus incedit Bede Kings [I xx 11] 727; his [tignis etc.] urbem in magna altitudine ~dedit Id. HE III 16; s1252 robora que trium hominum amplexibus ~dari nequiverant M. Par. Maj. V 273. 3 a to go round. b to surround, gather round, envelop; c (fig.). a deambulatoria ‥ machinari fecit ut ‥ hominum multitudo ‥ ipsum corpus ecclesie ~dare possit, cum a nemine tamen infra ‥ existentium videri queat Ric. Hex. Hist. Hex. I 3; aquam super limina ‥ aspergendo diffuderant, et per angulos laterum et tecta parietum omnia ~dando R. Cold. Cuthb. 17.  b adcurrentes ~dedcrunt me Bede HE V 12; Ric. Med. Anat. 213 (v. cranium); due tele cerebrum ~dantes Peckham Persp. I 30; gyth ‥ viridem habet stipitem ‥ foliis ~datum Alph. 2; s1378 Romani ~dabant cardinales in conclavi ‥, mortem eisdem comminantes Eul. Hist. Cont. III 340.  c stupor ingens ~dedit omnes Osb. V. Dunst. 17. 4 Circumdederunt, (introit for) Septuagesima Sunday (cf.Psalm. xvii. 12‥ Dominicis, sc. Ad te levavi, ~dederunt, Invocavit, Letare Reg. Pri. Worc. 127a.