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deterere

deterere [CL] , to wear away, deprive by rubbing (also fig.). b to fritter away (fig). c (?) to wear down, exhaust. d to crush, break, destroy. †detriturigine [l. detrita rubigine], agnidine GlC D 78; ~it, i. †prodit [l. perdit], diminuet GlH D 321; si [visibilis spiritus] in ipsa extensionis elongatione aliqua sui parte ~itur Adel. QN 30; servum tuum duc ad vitam / post concissam et detritam / togam carnis putide Walt. Wimb. Virgo 162.  b 1081 juvenilem aetatem in his [quaestionibus saecularium] detrivimus, sed accedentes ad pastoralem curam abrenuntiandum eis decrevimus Lanfr. Ep. 33 (49); in talibus neniis nollem vitam ~ere Id. Corp. & Sang. 409C.  c s1378 insultum facit ad castrum, †deterius [ed.: deterrens; ? l. deterens] inclusos insuper cum ‥ machinis bellicis per longam moram Wals. HA I 388.  d neque pro modico manuum Dei creatura †deterreatur [? l. deteratur; AS: forspille(man)] (Cons. Cnuti) GAS 311 (cf. (Quad.) ib.: dispereat); in lege Danorum quisquis justam legem †detererit [AS: wyrde] solvat legis fracturam (Ib.) Ib. 321; Bartolano ‥ pestilentie mucrone detrito Gir. TH III 3.

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