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evellere [CL], ~are 1 to tear up, uproot (plant). b to dig up, chip away (stone). c to dig out, extract (artifact). d to exhume (cadaver). Orion ‥ ornos aut ingentia robora de montibus evulsa radicitus traxit Lib. Monstr. I 56; c745 (Dan. Wint.) Ep. Bonif. 64 (v. comma 1a); ~et, i. eruet,alyft; ~it, i. eradicat, exstirpat, ut alucþ GlH E 380–1; Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 199; Map NC I 24, etc. (v. eruncare); tribulos et spinas ‥ agricola evulsit V. Gund. 29; utrum [planta] habeat animam, sive ~atur a ramo vel a radice Bacon XI 242; omnes ‥ herbas qui sub isto curru sunt ~e (Boecius 27) VSH I 95.  b onagri ‥ saxa de montibus ~unt Lib. Monstr. II 3; de fragmentis que latomi de informi lapide marculis evulserant fideles collegerunt Ord. Vit. XI 27 p. 262; c1275 in petra ad novam bercariam de Farendone ~anda et carianda xxvj s. vj d. Ac. Beaulieu 166.  c ingens choruscatio ‥ ferreos de cruce clavos evulsit Ord. Vit. V 3 p. 307; 1349 in factura unius spatour pro lectuariis in garderoba prioris de pixidibus ~endis, v d. Ac. Durh. 549.  d si apta videtur [aecclesia] ad consecrandum, inde evulsa [sint cadavera infidelium] et rasis vel lotis lignis ejus, reaedificetur Theod. Pen. II 1. 4. 2 to tear at, pluck out, cut off (part of body). b to pluck, pull (hair or wool); v. et. avellere a; cf. evellerare. ut ‥ impleret Christi mandatum dicentis oculum dextrum scandalizantem ~i debere [cf. Matth. v 29] Gildas EB 69; s797 oculos evulserunt AS Chr.; citius ‥ potest in se confidens humana sapientia impingendo cornua sibi ~ere quam innitendo petram hanc evolvere [cf. Ezech. xxxiv 21, Psalm. xliii 6] Anselm (Incarn. B) II 7; si ‥ homo ‥ ita peccasset ut dominus ei ‥ oculos ~ere ‥ posset ‥ Alex. Cant. Dicta 1 p. 111; palpebris ejus turpiter evulsis R. Cold. Cuthb. 44 (cf. ib.: lumina distorta vibrare); queritur dens apri evulsus ab ore ejus, quare eo vivente radat Quaest. Salern. B 162; talis erit quod ‥ si diem inter nos non tenueris assignatam ‥ habeam sine condicione omnes carnes tui corporis ~ere cum gladio acuto Latin Stories 116.  b lugentes crines et barbas ~unt Ord. Vit. VII 12 p. 212; 1288 (v. evellerare); 1307 in ‥ pellibus lanutis ~andis MinAc 1079/18 m. 8. 3 to cleave, pull down, tear apart. b to root out, get rid of (abstr.). solo sternerentur ‥ ima turrium edito cardine evulsarum murorumque celsorum saxa Gildas EB 24; ~it, repulit GlC E 334; dum ‥ [frumentum] conteritur in mortario, aer qui ex concussione calefit, dum ibi iterum pilo ~itur, et exalat, et frigiditas inde succedit Quaest. Salern. B 131; 1209 in custo mairemii venientis de foresta ‥ ad molindinum et carpentario ad ~andum mairemium Pipe Wint. 60; s1265 (v. construere a); 1538 (v. divisivus c).  b quis memoriam malefacti de corde radicitus, ut Joseph, evulsit? Gildas EB 69; ~endus est error Ockham Pol. III 280; 1420 pro redintegranda pace ~endisque dissidiis Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 91; de mentibus simplicium ‥ hunc errorem ~ere Paul. Angl. ASP 1542. 4 (w. personal obj.) to tear away, dislodge (from; partly fig.). de ergastulo / carnis evulsus (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 2. 86; ut ‥ nihil ‥ sit quod ab ejus firmitate me valeat ~ere Anselm (CurD 1) II 48; monachus ‥ vitam claustralem ‥ fastidit querens ‥ qualiter ab ea ~atur et transplantetur Nig. Ep. 17.

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