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eruderare [CL] 1 to clear (site or sim. of rubbish). area purgatur rastrisque serenda novatur. / eruderatur humus, tumet agger, in aggere dumus / spinaque figuntur R. Cant. Malch. V 516; a puteo mundato et ~ato Neckam NR II 174; putei aquarum viventium, quos Abraham primo fodit, Isaac ~avit R. Bury Phil. 1. 27; [abbas J., ob. 1260] molendinum ‥ reparavit ‥ et stagnum adjacens ‥ ~avit G. S. Alb. I 328; abbas [H., ob. 1326] cemeterium ‥ derelictum ‥ totum fecit competenter mundari, ~ari, ac decenti ordine complanari Ib. II 125; ~ato monasterio toto ‥ et de cineribus ‥ expurgato Croyl. 24. 2 a to clear away (rubbish or debris). b to dig or hollow out (also fig.). a ut ‥ Wilfridi dirutam ‥ ecclesiam ‥ conspicatus, ruinis super mausoleum ~atis, reliquias Cantuariam ‥ transferret W. Malm. GP I 15; †erudeare [MS: eruderare], purgare, quasi †rudem [MS: rudera] auferre Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 195.  b ut ‥ fundamentis obfirmatio privetur et in ruinam †erudentur [? l. eruderentur] R. Niger Mil. III 69 (cf. ib.: inquisitio que ‥ elicit radices heresis et ~at fundamenta paulatim erute falsitatis); s1098 ceciderunt in foveam quam aliis ~averant [cf. Psalm. vii 16] M. Par. Min. II 124; s1256 Id. Maj. V 600 (v. calamus 2b); ~o, A. to myne WW. 3 to strip away. ~ato penitus argento a rota memorata Chr. Abingd. I 345; abbas [Ingulfus, ob. 1158] ‥ xij thecas ex auro puro et argento coopertas iterum ~avit, utilius dijudicans aurum et argentum pro ‥ libertate ecclesiastica in fisco regio ‥ exaggerare quam servitium ejusdem terre ‥ amittere Ib. II 214. 4 to manure. to mukke, ~are, fimare, pastinare, purgare, stercorare CathA. 5 ? f. l. 1252 hic theologi discipulos in pulpitis ‥ informant, logici ‥ tyrones Aristotilis eruderant [? l. erudiunt], grammatici balbutientium linguas in analogiam effigiant (Lit. Magistrorum Tolosan.) Garl. Tri. Eccl. 97.

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