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delibare [CL] 1 to scrape, graze. b to skim off (fig.), pick out. tenero delibat harenum / incessu J. Exon. BT III 231; ille arte Cidonum / fretus Itirea delibat cuspide frontem / principis Ib. V 323. b Hanv. I 137 (v. commendativus); hec ‥ cursim et breviter ~asse sufficiat Gir. EH I 46. 2 to offer as libation or sacrifice. ~atis, prolatis GlC D 204; ~or, i. immolor GlH D 123; si thura ydolo ~assem (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 56; to do sacrifyce, ‥ libare, de- ‥ CathA.

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