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comere [CL] 1 to dress, arrange (hair). b (? infl. by ME comen) to currycomb. Aldh. Aen. 100. 47 (v. calamistrare b); Vinsauf PN 549 (v. 1 coma 2); a1400 si regit ordo comas et eas docet ordine comi (Gallus et Anglus) Pol. Poems I 92.  b 1385 in uno pectine equ’ pro equis predictis ~endis KR Ac 483/5 m. 2 (cf. Knighton II 58: equis bene ~ptis). 2 to adorn, embellish; b (of language). c to glorify, extol. atque suae comptus sponsae penetralia comptae / creditur ut laetus meruisset visere compta Æthelwulf Abb. 393–4; 9‥ ~ere, frætwian ‥, ~ptus, i. ornatus, geglengad WW; regina ‥ quam ~psit regalis dignitas Byrht. V. Osw. 438; vultu severo ‥ et que rem ~unt lacrimis Map NC III 4 p. 131.  b tomum ‥ comptum sermone polito Aldh. VirgV 2153; ut strictiori consilio responsum ~eret suum W. Malm. GP IV 143; D. Bec. 1135 (v. 3 color 3a).  c unusquisque novum comat cum voce sacellum Aldh. CE 3. 57; 717 agmina / Deum quae semper canticis / verum comunt angelicis (Vers.) Bonif. Ep. 9.

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