edocere

edocēre [CL] 1 to teach (thoroughly), inform, impart knowledge (of): a (w. person taught in acc. or unspec.); b (w. inf.); c (w. indir. qu. or quod); d (w. person taught in dat.). a sacerdos considerare debet personam, in qua aetate vel quomodo ~tus Theod. Pen. I 15. 5; gentem Anglorum ‥ per se [Gregorium] ‥ ~tam V. Greg. p. 80; Nynia ‥ qui erat Romae regulariter fidem et mysteria veritatis ~tus Bede HE III 4 p. 133; †~it, bene †docit GlC E 37; quod A. verbis ~uit, hoc Suuithinus miraculis ‥ decoravit Ælf. Æthelwold 18; erga Deum emendet sedulo, sicut ~ebitur [AS: swa swa man him tæce] (Quad.) GAS 343; non dederunt eam patres corrumpendam moribus, / sed dederunt †edocendo [? l. edocendam] in divinis artibus Hil. Ronce. 1. 32; Gir. PI I 17 (v. doctrinaliter); M. Par. Maj. V 401 (v. eligere 1g); audientes asserciones hujusmodi a magnis doctoribus ~eri Ockham Dial. 431. b quem Deus edocuit mundum servare pudorem Aldh. VirgV 714; dum [B. Edmundus] eos [scholares suos] missas audire sic ~uit Higd. VII 35 p. 220; 1457 (v. 1 compati 2d). c quod septinarius numerus ‥ interdum priscae legis imaginem praetulerit, sacra auctoritate ~emur Aldh. Met. 2; quid erga eum agere rex promisisset, ~uit Bede HE II 12; ~tus quibus tormentis affligendus erat nisi faceret que jubebantur ‥, respondit ‥ G. Mon. I 11; Elveden Cal. 5 (v. 2 infra). d s870 advocatis suis strenuus dux ~et somnium Chr. S. Neoti; S. Patricius eis [Hibernicis] fidem Christi ~uit Eul. Hist. II 124. 2 to teach, impart knowledge (of, w. abstr. or inanim. subj.). sicut Exodi sequentia patenter ~ent (Ceolfrith) Bede HE V 21 p. 335; nisi sicut affectus ~et Ps.-Gros. Gram. 59; novum lumen ‥ / natum regem edocuit / et magos antecessit Ledrede Carm. 39. 5; tercius [libellus] ‥ quasdam narraciones monstruosas ~et Eul. Hist. proem. I 3; secunda [linea kalendarii] ~et quantum clok percuciet vicinius ortui solis Elveden Cal. 5. 3 (p. ppl.) learned, skilled (in). 601 Augustinus episcopus in monasterii regula ~tus (Lit. Papae) Bede HE I 32; Basilius ‥ rethoricis sofismatum ~tus disciplinis Aldh. VirgP 27; fuit ‥ deductus ad medicos ~tos cenobii nostri V. Cuthb. IV 17; gens ‥ usu pariter et exercitio sagittis et armis paulatim ~ta et assueta Gir. EH II 34.

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