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1 conserere [CL] 1 to intertwine, put together. b to compose (literary works). c (p. ppl.) serried, compact; d (? infl. by 2 conserere) densely covered, overgrown. 8‥ ~es, ðu on asets WW; 9‥ ~o, i. ‥ conjungo, ic embsette WW; Gir. Spec. II 8 (v. contricare); s1248 quendam frumenti ~tum aggerem, quem vulgariter tassum appellamus M. Par. Maj. V 33; crinibus virgineis ~tis laureolis preciosis G. Hen. V 15.  b sub deno quater haec diverse enigmata torquens / stamine metrorum exstructor conserta retexit Tatwine Aen. prol.; quanto verba intellectui magis accommoda, dum eleganti quadam juncture fuerint ratione ~ta Gir. EH intr. p. 208.  c [pisces] albis carnibus ~tis et sapidis Gir. TH I 10; s1254 ~to agmine M. Par. Maj. V 442.  d de ipsis montibus, speluncis ac saltibus dumis ~tis continue rebellabant Gildas EB 20; hispida ‥ et silvis ~ta provincia de Elevein Gir. RG I 5. 2 a to join (w. ref. to battle). b (w. verba or sim.) to join in talk. a ~to gravi proelio Bede HE II 20; ~to ‥ utrorumque exercitu commiserunt prelium G. Mon. II 5; R. Cold. Godr. 168 (v. concertatio a); denique †consortis [v. l. consertis] magno conamine dextris / instant nostrates V. Merl. 1056; 1166 dum velut extracto gladio pugna ~itur G. Foliot Ep. 167; s1217 (v. 2 disserere 3).  b “agnoscisne” inquit ‥ “faciem tecum verba ~entis? ” Lib. Eli. III 60; sermonem ~it J. Sal. Pol. 481c (v. 3 clavus 2b); nec cum ‥ advenientibus verba ~ere voluit R. Cold. Godr. 55.
2 conserere [CL] , to sow, plant. b (p. ppl. consitus) planted (w. trees); c (fig.). d set, arranged. e equipped, endowed. f (as sb.) class of tenant (Gasc.). ortus in quo consita sunt universa florum genera H. Los. Serm. 12. 350; diversa leguminum seminaria ‥ ~ere R. Cold. Godr. 139.  b horti civium arboribus ~i W. Fitzst. Thom. prol. 5; arboribus consitus ille locus Nig. SS 1036; agris passim utuntur pascuis ‥, cultis parce, ~is parcissime Gir. TH III 10.  c virtutum plantariis ‥ Ricardus copiose per omnia ~us R. Bocking Ric. Cic. 286.  d 1388 continet ‥ pars ‥ posterior ‘ora pro nobis’ de literis ex margaritis ~is (Invent. Westm.) Arch. LII 221.  e nudum opprimere armis et viribus valde ~um inclito gloria non est G. Herw. 322.  f 1285 omnibus ‥ feodatariis, emphiteotecariis, ~is, colonis nostris RGasc II 246.

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