delabi

delabi [CL, conf. w.dilabi] , to slip, fall down, descend; b (fig.). c to move imperceptibly, to slip into. d (of time) to slip by. hoc tabulatum in extrema summitate murorum templi ‥ erat erectum, ne qui ‥ incaute progrediendo dilaberetur ad ima Bede Kings 723; est cisterna in ecclesia ‥ in quam stella dicitur esse dilapsa Sæwulf 848; W. Cant. Mir. Thom. VI 66 (v. crusculum); episcopus ‥, equo dilapsus, capiti suo mitram imponi fecit Gir. RG I 6 p. 35. b si in crimine dilabuntur H. Reading (I) Dial. 6. 1216B; [vir] in summis rote gradibus quandoque constitutus, sed irremeabili descensu ‥ versus ima volubilitate dilapsus Gir. EH II 11; Flor. Hist. III 51 (v. comparativus). c tristior interea Frigius delabitur hospes / in portus, Salamina, tuos J. Exon. BT II 155 (cf. ib. VI 890: in Adriacas exul delabitur undas). d occulte velox delabitur etas D. Bec. 310.

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