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diverberare

diverberare [CL] 1 a to cleave. V. et. deverberare 2. a diferverat, intervenit, separat GlC D 238; aerem virga ~ans, quam manu gerebat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. I 14. 2 to strike, beat soundly. V. et. deverberare 1. mulieres ‥ propriis manibus crines lacerant, pectus ~ant Ailr. SS Hex 2; [egrotum] nunc videres precipitem, nunc renitentem et invitum ex adverso ~ari R. Cold. Cuthb. 48. 3 to thresh out (fig.). 1291 ~ato negocio hinc et inde (Reg. Linc. III 176) EHR XXVI 505.

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