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comminisci [CL] 1 to devise, invent. b to lie. confutati aliud argumenti genus molientes ~untur, ut prostituta pellax virum castissimum ‥ stupro ‥ insimulare ‥ machinaretur Aldh. VirgP 32; importabiles corporibus suis pro animarum remedio ~untur cruces W. Malm. GR IV 336; ut devoti claustrales ‥ temptantur mille meandris dyaboli, ut nunc suggeritur quod virtute sacre obediencie oportet laborare attente, †commiscendo [? l. cominiscendo] mendacia pro ‥ multiplicandis redditibus Wycl. Sim. 106.  b CathA (v. commentari 2a). 2 to think, recollect. b to note, remark, mention. ~i, recordari GlC C 559; conmentus est, cogitavit Ib. 566; 9‥ ~itur, recordatur ‥ ~untur, ræswodan WW; obstipuere patres, haec sic fore comminiscentes [v. l. commemorantes] Frith. 1180.  b sed quid de fucorum muricibus subtiliter ~imur? Aldh. VirgP 15; 9‥ ~untur, ‥ spæcan WW; mortem pueri minime ~ens, respondit universa sub integritatis sospitate fuisse constituta B. V. Dunst. 34. 3 (p. ppl. commentus, s. pass., as sb. n): a device, invention. b fabrication, falsehood. c note, comment, commentary. a nostrae exercitationis sollicitudo ‥ ~is adinventionum stimulata Aldh. Met. 6; ~a, atinventa GlC C 638; ~um, apoht Ib. 779; hic tamen haec placuit rerum commenta novare Æthelwulf Abb. 646; 9‥ ~a, ‥ machinamenta, excogitata, †adjumenta [l. adinventa] WW; si quis ‥ vellet ‥ nefandis hujusmodi ~is ‥ occurrere G. Steph. I 13.  b sic rea suffragante Deo commenta fatescunt Aldh. VirgV 1015; ~is, seorwum GlC C 667; 9‥ ~a, ‥ fraudes, †onþanc[? l. orþanc], dicta, mendacia, sarwa WW; justitia, fortitudo, providentia, temperantia vana vulgi comenta sunt (Quad. Dedic.) GAS 530; credebat ‥ quod hoc ~o posset vitam [filii sui] resumere W. Malm. GP III 100; s1255 se reddidit de predictis ~is credibilem et papam fallaciis proniorem M. Par. Maj. V 512; istud ~um patris mendacii statim convincitur per hoc quod precise tantum obediendum est privato preposito quantum Deus precipit conformiter legi sue Wycl. Sim. 106 (cf. (v. 1a supra)); ‘qui eis taliter falsa crimina imposuerint seu maliciose confinxerint ~a’, i. e. fraudes, mendacia, machinamenta vel alias ficte in animo conceptus adinvenciones Lyndw. 95c (cf. Conc. Syn. 577, which omits commenta).  c ubi ‥ Hieronimi ~a recitantur Aldh. VirgP 49; prophetarum commentis clancula certis / dicta retexebat Id. VirgV 1629; theologicis ~is sanctissimi Ierothei Eriug. Per. 645B; 9‥ ~a, i. tractationes, ‥ ~a, trahtunga WW; 10‥ ~um Boetii super Categorias (Catal. librorum) EHR XXXII 389; in ~o supra hunc librum xj Bacon VII 15; 1296 nobis vestrarum reseravit in unum conveniens scribendi ~um series litterarum Reg. Carl. I 102; 1319 librum geometrie cum comento Reg. Heref. 119; sicut dicitur super librum Vegetabilium in ~o Upton 115.

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