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destillare (dist-) [CL] 1 (of fluids) to flow, trickle, ooze. cortice inciso ~ans umor Bede Sam. 674; humor ~at a capite ad pulmonem continue quasi pluvia Ps.-Ric. Anat. 41; aqua que condensatur in nubibus ‥ vi expressiva ventorum exprimitur et ~at in guttas Quaest. Salern. B 170; 1250 ~at pluvia per medium furnum, quia discoopertus est CalIMisc I p. 30; s1220 [S. archiepiscopus] fecit per totam diem translacionis [S. Thome] vinum jugiter in canalibus per varia urbis loca ~are Higd. VII 34 p. 200. 2 a (trans.) to exude, pour slowly. b to pour down (fig.). c (absol.) to exude or discharge moisture, drip. a mel lentescens cerarum machina clausum / atque favi croceum destillans [v. l. distillans] flumine nectar Aldh. VirgV 1600; 930 (v. campulus b); favus melle redundans ‥ liquorem ~at dulcissimum L. Durh. Brig. 5. 175E; decoquatur cum aceto ‥ et ~etur in aurem Gad. 116v. 1.  b tua labia / torrentes mellios sunt distillancia Walt. Wimb. Carm. 13; vindictam [Dei] ‥ ~ari Wycl. Civ. Dom. I 218 (v. dissipativus).  c culmina antiquata tecti ~antia fenestraeque apertae ‥ et parietes incultae ‥ horribiles manebant Eddi 16; si ‥ oculus ~et, pro lacrimis detur aurea Gilb. II 122. 1; 1323 quicumque nostrum tardius edificaverit super eundem murum gutteram faciet et sustentabit ~antem super terram suam propriam Cart. Osney I 130. 3 (alch.) to distill (trans. or intr.). M. Scot Lumen 266 (v. alembicum); auctores [alkimie] docent suas medicinas sublimare, ~are et resolvere Bacon Tert. 40; ~a per alembicum lento igne vel claro in serpentaria; aqua que primo ~averit est optima Gad. 66v. 2 (cf. ib. 13. 1: purgetur cum aqua ~ata de floribus sambuci); to stille waters, stillare, ~are, CathA; cum ‥ xx quartas aque vite septies ~ate ‥ emisset Entries 187 (cf. (v. decimalis 5)).

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