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emerēre, ~ēri [CL] 1 a to complete (a term of military service). b to finish (a task or course). c (p. pp1. as sb. m.) veteran. a itos Christi milites ‥ prosternunt Aldh. VirgV 13; in senectute ‥ ~itus miles permanserit Byrht. V. Ecgwini 353; miles ~itus clipeum veneratur et arma R. Bury Phil. 4. 73; milites Romani post lxum aetatis annum non cogebantur militare sed dabatur illis villa ‥ et tunc vocabatur miles ~itus vel ~ite militie quasi positus extra meritum militie Higd. I 25 p. 247.  b ~itus, i‥. geþungen, perfectus GlH E 229; 1169 eatenus jam profecit per Dei gratiam industria pauperis ‥ ut in his emerendis [v. l. emendis] ijm marcarum antecessorem suum ‥ expensurum fuisse non dubitem J. Sal. Ep. 303 (293); cum omnes planete cum stellis etiam stabunt quasi ~iti, stabilis erit status noster Neckam NR I 14 p. 54.  c ~itus, i. veteranus miles GlH E 229; ~iti, qui sola quiete domi potiuntur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 469; de senum et ~itorum comitativa in expeditione peregrinationis onus habetur et interdum consilium, raro vero aliud adjutorium R. Niger Mil. IV 61. 2 to earn, merit. b (p. ppl.) meritorious. c (by conf. w. immeritus) unrewarded. hec collocutio hunc finem ~uit W. Malm. GR V 406; s1147 qui ‥ in ministerio Henrici Wintonie episcopi plurimum glorie pretium ~uit J. Hex. HR Cont. 321.  b bonis et ~itis actibus se subdidit Byrht. V. Ecgwini 384; sprevisti emeritas Petri de culmine cartas Frith. 914; 1325 attendentes ‥ laborem ~itum ac fructuosam solicitudinem Reg. Roff. Ep. 113.  c unrewarded, ~itus CathA. 3 to conciliate, be pleasing. ~eor, complaceo GlH E 231.

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