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defaecare

defaecare [CL] 1 to purify, free from impurities (w. ref. to wine, ale, or sim., also fig.); v. et. effaecare a. b (by misinterp.) to stale (wine or ale). c to refine. d to free (land) from unwanted persons. e to free from error or sim.. merulenta ~ati nectaris defruta apothecis celestibus recondenda Aldh. VirgP 30; ~atum vinum, gehluttrad win Ælf. Gl.; W. Fitzst. Thom. 19, Gad. 123v. 2 (v. cervisia 1c); utrum de musto non ~ato ‥ [sanguis Domini] confici valeat, questio est Gir. GE I 8 p. 26; hoc ‥ de prelo purissimi torcularis in nostre memorie dolia ~andum transibat R. Bury Phil. 8. 134.  b stal, as drynke, deficatus, meraxacis ‥, stalyn, or make stale drynke, ~o PP; servicia deficata, A. stale ale WW; stale as ale, ~atus CathA.  c Adel. QN 29 (v. detergere 2b); vis sensualis, ‥ ex subtilioribus elementis et ab hac carnali ‥ corpulentia ‥ ~atis ‥ compacta Ailr. An. III 2. 42v; ascendit ‥ ad cerebrum semen, ut spiritum vite animalis suscipiat. hoc longo defluxu ~ari oportuit, ut purum animal sanum produceret Alf. Angl. Cor 15. 11; 1563 eadem [metalla] probare, ~are, liquefacere, purificare Pat 1173 m. 3.  d [Henricus I] Flandrenses ‥ apud Ros velut in sentinam congessit, ut ‥ regnum ~aret W. Malm. GR V 401; s1298 cum universas provincias Scocie rex E. ~asset necnon sue dicioni subjugasset Rish. 388.  e expositis ad liquidum et ~atis peonum regulis Aldh. PR 137; ut, dissolutioris conversationis eorum [canonicorum] normam arctius innormans, senum canitiem vitiorum infectione puer [sc. Oswoldus] ~aret Chr. Rams. 22; ut sit Christiana undique versum ~ata religio Pull. Sent. 773A; c1150 cultu ~ate religionis G. Foliot Ep. 84. 2 (p. ppl.) pure, clear; b (w. ref. to perception, thought, conduct, or sim.). ~atum, i. liquidum, purum, ahluttrad GlH D 55; maxime post pluvias aere ~atiori blavius seu saphirinus color apparet Ps.-Gros. Summa 620 (cf. ib. 641: aurum vero vivum a<ill/>gentum suum habet ~atissimum).  b sensu †defectato [l. meliorato, l. defecato], quia ebrietatis fumus penitus evanuerat W. Malm. Mir. Mariae 162; is cui mens sanior, oculus purior, vita est ~atior Ailr. Spec. Car. III 26. 586B; licet aurium sensus purissimus et ~atissimus sit J. Sal. Pol. 758A; ~ate mentis agilitas R. Cold. Cuthb. 112; cor ‥ meditatione ~ata ‥ mundissimum Ad. Eyns. Hug. II 2 p. 49; judicio ~atissimi intellectus Wycl. Ver. II 64.

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