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circumferre

circumferre [CL] , to move round, roll, rotate. b to carry about. ~fer oculos ad latera Bede TR 19; [sol] sub terrae inferiora ~fertur Ib. 34; solus oceanus ~fertur et evagatur Gir. TH pref. p. 20; s1304 [lapides] qui ultra murum ~ferebantur, ruentes in castrum, ‥ eis nocebant Flor. Hist. III 119.  b a805 evangelicas ‥ ammonitiones ‥ pittaciolis exaratas in collo ~ferre Alcuin Ep. 290; hinc accidit ut episcopi et abbates et sancti in Hibernia citharas ~ferre ‥ consueverint Gir. TH III 12.

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