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degustare

degustare [CL] , to taste; b (fig.). quod prius Lucifer ‥ corruisset ‥ quam protoplaustus ‥ vetitam ~ans alimoniam in gastrimargiae voraginem cecidisset Aldh. VirgP 11; suavitatem carnis ~averunt V. Cuthb. II 4; libare, ~are GlC L 162; R. Cold. Cuthb. 118 (v. desuescere 1a).  b ea quae mens rationabiliter de interna luce caritatis ~at Bede Tab. 473; ut is, quem antea ~ans quasi maximum rebar, jam permodicus mihi odor videretur Id. HE V 12 p. 307; o data vel raro vel nulli fercula, solis / degustanda viris! o felix mensa, Catoni / forsitan et nostro vix evo nota! Hanv. IX 458 p. 392; hos ‥ nostre diligentie fructus tue ~andos discretioni ‥ destinare proposui Gir. IK 1 pref. p. 8; scholares nonnulli ‥ indulgent studio liberalium; sed, dum singula ~ant, famelici relinquuntur Neckam NR II 186; tu [sc. corpus Christi], divino melle cum refluis, / degustatum famem exacuis J. Howd. Ph. 990; Ockham Dial. 776 (v. desiderium 1d); Fortescue LLA 54 (v. confundere 1e).

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