confortare

confortare 1 to invigorate, heal. b (p. ppl. as sb. f.) medicament, salve, or f.l for confortativa.. morbo nunc confortaberis isto Alcuin SS Ebor 632; 9‥ convaluit, i. ~avit, gewyrpte WW; ipse rex et illi mediocres eodem pane roborati et ~ati sunt, utique ad edificationem anime, set illi qui egebant etiam ad solatium hujus vite Ad. Eyns. Hug. II 5 p. 62; muscus promatur; maratrum vulgo comedatur; / ‥ / triplice cum cella confortant hec cerebella Garl. Mor. Scol. 592; M. Scot Sol 722 (v. confortatio 1); medicina ‥ que naturalem calorem ~at et restaurat Bacon IX 102.  b 9‥ fota, i. ~ata, sealf WW. 2 to cheer, reassure. b (pass.) to take comfort, be reassured. c to encourage (w. inf); d (refl); e (dep. refl.). ut ‥, si fideles, in ipsa eos fide ~aret Bede HE III 5; sanctus [Cuthbertus] matrem ejusdem [regis Elfredi] nuntii letitia ~avit W. Malm. GP III 130; ecclesia ‥ / tristes confortat Garl. Tri. Eccl. 9; homines bone complexionis ‥ ~ant alios, et homines gaudent de eorum presentia Bacon NM 530; 1303 alii tanti mali participes, viz. fautores, auxiliatores, conscencientes, subportantes, ~antes Reg. Carl. II 51; s1346 et confortabat quos sors adversa gravabat (R. de Syreston) Hist. Durh. 2; s1377 principissa ‥ ~avit eos verbis quibus pro tempore potuit Chr. Angl. 124; ~o A. to conforte & make myrthe WW; to comforth, ~are, solar CathA.  b s1087 cui [Henrico I] pater respondit: “equanimis esto, fili, et ~are in Domino” Ord. Vit. VII 16 p. 244; 1191 ~amini et estote robusti, nihil de nobis solliciti Ep. Cant. 385; valeat cor vestrum et ~etur in Domino [cf. I Reg. xxx 6, Psalm. xxx 25] Gir. Symb. 23 p. 271; s1333 ~amini, fratres, et arma sumite cum vigore G. Ed. III Bridl. 115.  c 801 harum obsecro lectio litterarum animum tuum ~et viriliter agere Alcuin Ep. 232; 1412 visa debilitate Antichristi, ~antur fideles publicare sentencias ‥ evangelicas Conc. III 341.  d quo se confortat dux commoda nulla reportat Gower CT III 114.  e comfortamini vosmet ipsas [ME: froureð ou sulf] AncrR 63. 3 a to confirm (in authority). b to confirm, corroborate (a grant). a donec legitimus rex Uictred ‥, ~atus in regno, ‥ gentem suam ab extranea invasione liberaret Bede HE IV 24 p. 268.  b 956 (12c) ego Elfsige episcopus ~avi CS 938; †971 (12c) ego Mascusius archipirata ~avi Ib. 1277.