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conquassare

conquassare [CL] , to crush or shatter. b (fig.) to suppress, quench. c to rob. dum equus super ipsum ‥ corrueret, ‥ contigit quod unum de nativis ejus lapidibus omnino pessundando ~asset R. Cold. Cuthb. 103; s1246 in bello strenue pugnavit et calibeas galeas ~avit Ann. Worc. 452; quin [lapis] caput ejus ~asset R. Bocking Ric. Cic. 286; quodlibet frustum ‥ submerge in oleo; deinde ~a, et ex ~atis imple vasa vitrea Gilb. VII 329. 1; s1252 famulus ‥ invenit ostia quasi in hostili guerra ~ata M. Par. Maj. V 343; ad partem illam [fortalicii] que prius ~ata erat lapidibus canellarum G. Hen. V 7.  b ~atis [ignium] ardoribus R. Cold. Cuthb. 39.  c 9‥ expilatum, i. ~atum, apryd vel arydred WW.

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