emungere

emungere [CL] 1 to blow or wipe one’s nose (sts. w. ref. to Prov. xxx 33); b (fig., trans.). c (p. ppl., fig.) refined. ~o, purgo, emundo GlH E 265; ~ere, purgare, sicut nasum facimus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 195; s1231 qui nimis ~it elicit sanguinem Wend. III 17; nolite ‥ nimis ~ere Ockham Pol. III 17. b videtur multis ‥ quod dyabolus numquam ~eret [v. l. iniungeret] hunc errorem, nisi ut placeatur hominibus et attendatur superbia in prelatis Wycl. Chr. & Antichr. 665. c emunctus, A. aqueynte WW. 2 to clean, trim (a candle-wick; also fig.). b to extinguish. emunctorium, ferrum unde candelam ~imus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 195; Ad. Scot TT 660A; R. Niger Mil. I 57 (v. emunctorium 2); hanc etiam lucernam emunxit cum martyrem suum exilio diuturno ‥ et injuriis innumeris affligi permisit S. Langton Serm. 4. 38. b ~o, A. to quenche. . 3 to put (extorting) pressure (on), to squeeze. b to extort, to squeeze out (usu. money). quos timore potestatis vel ~endos suscipiunt, toto splendore popine propitiantur Map NC I 25 f. 20; Gir. GE II 32 (v. bursa 2b); Ranulpho ‥ Dunelmensi episcopo [ob. 1128] ‥ regnum ‥ opprimente et ad ipsum sanguinem ~ente Croyl. Cont. A 110. b alumpnos / equoris emungi Thetis dolet J. Exon. BT I 252; s1166 denarios quatuor a singulis marcatis ~ens Diceto YH 329; s1167 vir doctus pecuniam ~endi Flor. Hist. II 81; s1238 [Simon de Montfort] ab uno cive Legrecestrie ‥ quingentas marcas emunxerat M. Par. Maj. III 479; s1240 collecta ‥ Petri ‥ quam a Scotorum finibus emunxit, hanc summam creditur dupplicasse Flor. Hist. II 240; Yvo ‥ abbatem in foveam cadere compulit et ‥ monasterii ‥ pecunias ~ere in manus hostiles coegit Croyl. Cont. A 125.

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