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degere

degere [CL w. LL perf. deguisse] , a to spend, pass (time or life). b to live, dwell. a absque cibo plures degebam marcida menses Aldh. Aen. 47 (Hirundo) 1; vitam compellor degere stando Ib. 96 (Elefans) 16; multos in ‥ monasterio ~ens annos Bede HE IV 25 p. 270; cum esset xxv annorum solitariam vitam ingressus, xv ~uit W. Malm. GP IV 182; s1417 [R. abbas] cunctis postea diebus suis tranquillam et quietam ~uit vitam Croyl. Cont. B 513.  b 686 vade in pace, vive cum Christo, ~e in Domino, Dominus sit tecum (Theod. Ep.) Eddi 43; stuppea cui fuerant pepli velamine texti, / donec degebat Aldh. VirgV 1516; 955 moniali in Wiltunensi monasterio ~enti CS 903; 9‥ ~ebat, lifde oððe drohte WW; quamvis hic carneo septus velamine ~uisset in imis ‥, semper manebat in superis B. V. Dunst. 29; dum in corpore ~uit Gosc. Mir. Iv. lxvii; 1326 rebus ~ens in humanis Lit. Cant. III 401; conchilia dicuntur pisces ~entes in conchis SB 16; s1337 A. de Moravia ‥ per totam yemem sequentem in foresta de P. ac in aliis locis occultis ‥ ~uit Plusc. IX 35.

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