excurrere

excurrere [CL] 1 to run (on), rush (out; also fig.). b (trans.) to run out from. celeri festinatione per maris alta ~unt R. Cold. Cuthb. 30; equus aliquanto longius conabatur cum milite suo ~ere Ib. 128; H. Bos. Thom. IV 13 p. 367 (v. effluere 2d); 1204 si canes ‥ ~unt in ‥ moras et bruillos RChart 122b. b velut manus sevas evasurus dormitorium ~ebat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. V 8. 2 (of liquid) to pour forth (also fig.). b (trans.) to drain. R. Cold. Cuthb. 45 (v. diffluere 1a); ut ~at putredo de vulnere cordis P. Blois Serm. 602D; s1376 aquas fecerunt ~ere (v. caput 15a). b Adel. QN 55 (v. aquositas). 3 (trans.): a to pass, spend (time). b to perform (duty), transact (business). c to run out of, exhaust (essoin). a parvissimo spatio serenitatis ad momentum excurso Bede HE II 13; tertia nox aderat mediis excursa tenebris Wulf. Swith. I 671; excurso denique aliquanti temporis spatio ‥ natus est ‥ filius T. Mon. Will. I 2; elapsa Pentecostis hebdomada et sic mense fere toto post ultimam audientiam excurso Gir. JS 3 p. 192; s1203 puerilibus autem annis [S. Dominici] innocenter excursis Trevet Ann. 172. b omnia caritatis officia ~isti Gosc. Lib. Confort. 28; his ‥ omnibus sic excursis, recessit comes Leycestrie Ad. Marsh Ep. 30 p. 129. c excursis omnibus essoniis quibus se essoniare poterit ‥ Glanv. IV 6.

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