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delitescere, ~iscere [CL], delitēre [LL] , to lie hidden or go into hiding; b (refl.); c (w. abstr. subj.). d to play hide-and-seek. antistes ‥ / delituit senis annorum cursibus intro / cisternae latebram descendens usque profundam Aldh. VirgV 1026; etiam si fieri possit ut ‥ ~eam ubi ‥ me ‥ fluctus oceani ‥ a cunctorum mortalium, ‥ cognitione secludant Bede CuthbP 8; ~ere, latere ‥, ~escere, moram facere GlC D 138, 196; dilitiscendo, miþende; dilituisse, i. celasse, gedyrnan; diliteo, -sco, lateo GlH D 516–18; huic spectaculo ‥ quidam nostrae religionis ~iscendo interfuit Abbo Edm. 11; Eadmer V. Anselmi I 15 (v. commutare 1c); infra nemus ‥ ~ere G. Mon. I 15 (v. divortium 1); [vulpes] infra cavernas montium ~ebit (Proph. Merlini) Ib. VII 4; noluit sub otio ~escere R. Bocking Ric. Cic. I 60; s1332 cum exercitu qui dilituit in latibulis Hist. Roff. f. 64; s1458 (v. desubtus 2a).  b s1400 [Scoti] se ~entes ad frutices ac deviarum cavernarum ‥ abdita, a facie regis se subtraxerunt Ad. Usk 47.  c Juliani martiris gloriam sub clandistino taciturnitatis latibulo ~escere non patiar Aldh. VirgP 36; in futuro punietur in opere quod hic male conscia ~escat in mente (Serm.) Osb. Bawdsey clxxiii; carnalis concupiscentia ‥ in umbraculo desperationis ~escit R. Cold. Cuthb. 8; leticiam facietenus pretendens, †qui [? l. que] in animo minime ~ebat Latin Stories 88; officium testium est testificari veritatem justicie ~entis Wycl. Civ. Dom. I 25.  d pleyyn bukhyde, angulo, ~eo PP.

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