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compluere 1 (trans.) to rain upon, bedew; b (fig.). 9‥ conpluitur, bið gerined WW; cum vestibus ~tis ‥ domum ipsa venisset L. Durh. Brig. 11 p. 181; velut area ~ta germinet Bald. Cant. Tract. 9. 503B; fruteta et vireta celitus ~ta R. Cold. Godr. 314; fusca nigredo / nubis prelargo compluit imbre solum Neckam DS III 173; ~ta et congelata menbra Ad. Eyns. Hug. IV 13 p. 68; s1263 viderat ‥ corpus conspersum et ~tum circa crura et humeros quasi guttis cere Rish. 15; de pannis inconsutis, ~tis [ME: bireined], illotis AncrR 133; ~tus, A. wet wyth rayne WW.  b qui tegis aquis superiora ejus, quibus per quasdam secretissimas cataractas ~as terram cordis nostri Ailr. Spec. Car. I 1 (505A); licet interno compluta [v. l. †complura] dolore / corda gemant J. Exon. BT I 471 (479) (cf. ib. III 246: complutaque murice vela); Christus humilis nos compluit ymbre Garl. Myst. Eccl. 154; compluit ecclesiam sanguinis unda sacri Id. Tri. Eccl. 107; quatinus ipsa [sophia] mentem aridam dictantis ~at rore suo Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V pref. p. 2. 2 to pour out, shower; b (of solid objects). aqueductuum atria ‥ cujuscunque generis vina ~unt Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 110.  b inclusi ‥ missilia ~unt Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 62.

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