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emetiri [CL] 1 a to measure, traverse (a space). b to fulfil (a period of time). a maxima permodica emensus mox caerula lintre / attigit ‥ litus Aldh. VirgV 2805; 778 in longum vallis et sic emenso spatio stratae in quoddam petrosum clivum CS 225; Ptolemeus epicyclos ‥ planetarum figuris et numeris ~itur R. Bury Phil. 8. 127.  b quadrigam Phebo attribuunt ‥ quod quaternaria sui diversitate diei spatium ~iatur Alb. Lond. DG 8. 6. 2 (p. ppl. emensus s. pass.): a (of a journey) completed. b (of a period of time) fulfilled. c dealt with. a adiit, ~a navigatione, Galliae terras Hist. Abb. Jarrow 32; itinere ‥ prolixo ‥ ~o G. Font. Inf. S. Edm. 2; trium dierum ‥ ~o itinere Gir. EH II 17.  b ~o unius quadragesimalis circulo Aldh. VirgP 13; ~o triennio Ib. 52; post ~um temporis sui spatium B. V. Dunst. 18; ~is quippe puerilibus annis Ailr. Ed. Conf. 766A.  c ~a sollemnitate paschali Bede HE I 20; ~a, i. transacta, magna consummata GlH E 236; Ad. Marsh Ep. 30 (v. diffusio 2c).

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