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debacchari

debacchari [CL], ~are , to rage, vent fury (on); b (w. in & acc.); c (of animal); d (of elements); e (w. abstr. subj.). f (p. ppl.) frantic, furious. coepit quasi ‥ freniticus ‥ sartagines basiare, in quibus diu ‥ debachatus et ‥ ludificatus abscedit Aldh. VirgP 50; totas eorum provincias ~ando pervagatus Bede HE II 20; 934 (10c) filios ‥ rictibus ~ando [MonA I 59b: †debactando] venenosis mordaciter dilacerat CS 702; ne ipsi ~arentur propter captionem apostoli Lanfr. Comment. Paul. (Phil. i 12) 308; s1365 (v. comitiva 2e); debacor, A. to wex wilde WW.  b [Maximus] tanta insania in dominos ~atus est ‥ Gildas EB 13; Caduallo ‥ ita debachatus est in Saxones ut ne sexui quidem muliebri ‥ parceret G. Mon. XII 9; pontifices suum sic archipresulem judicantes, quin potius linguis in archipresulem suum ‥ ~antes H. Bos. Thom. III 33; Gir. Invect. I 13 (v. deambulare 1c); potenciam ‥ qua posset secundum libitum in subjectos ~are Ockham Dial. 873.  c lupus ‥ toto malignitatis impetu debaccando grassabatur R. Cold. Godr. 51.  d videres ‥ ventorum flabra debachando insurgere R. Cold. Cuthb. 75; cum turbulenta debacantur maria Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 115.  e s1296 contra ‥ regem ‥ bella debacancia Chr. S. Edm. 63; 1399 virus pestiferum [nobilium rebellancium] in persone nostre prejudicium ‥ ~avit (Lit. Reg. Romanorum) Bekynton I 288; mutua inquietandi debacantur conamina Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 102.  f 9‥ debachatus, wedende WW; s1305 W. Waleys ‥ Nerone vesania ~atior Flor. Hist. III 123.

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