deliquescere

deliquescere [CL = to melt away] , to grow weak as water (cf.Psalm. xxi 15). s1097 pagani ‥ animis delicuerunt et fuge indulserunt H. Hunt. HA VII 8; s1138 acies ‥ Scotorum ‥ animo delicuit [Meaux I 122: †delituit] et fuge indulsit Ib. VIII 9.