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expugnare [CL] 1 to attack, fight (trans.); b (fig.); c (intr.). ipsi promiserunt ~are inimicos ejus fortiter Nen. HB 176; 1168 rex Anglorum eos transmisso exercitu ~abat dum verba concordie tractarentur J. Sal. Ep. 244 (272 p. 566) ; Map NC IV 3 (v. citra 3b); rex ‥ villam ~avit et in manu forti cepit, et ‥ exuperata est Strecche Hen. V 152.  b nonne ‥ ad haec [praecepta] ~anda vel potius obruenda ‥ arma corripitis? Gildas EB 108; pravas expugnans virgo cohortes Aldh. VirgV 2485; fidem suam falso testimonio ~antes Egb. Dial. 410; cujusdam sanctimonialis virginale ~are ausus est W. Malm. Mir. Mariae 190; expugnatores urbium ipsa inexpugnabilis [sc. mors] ~at Bald. Cant. Tract. 10. 513B; armatique aeris ira / instrepit et geminis expugnat vela procellis J. Exon. BT III 439.  c s1301 rex ‥ in castellum duriter ~ans, cetus interior viriliter resistens, ex utraque parte fit fortis colluctacio Eul. Hist. III 171. 2 to defeat in battle, capture. b to destroy. postquam [Alexander] Aornim petram ~avit in India Lib. Monstr. II 6; Saxonum gens ‥ locum manendi quasi pro patria pugnatura, re autem vera hanc ~atura, suscepit Bede HE I 15; ~atis ‥ Boructuaris a gente Antiquorum Saxonum Ib. V 11; nec ‥ illam civitatem ~are potuerunt, quia cives illi se viriliter defenderunt Asser Alf. 66; Romaneium [Romney] accessit, et ~atis his qui intus erant, cladem suorum vindicavit Ord. Vit. III 14 p. 153; qualiter [terra] subacta sit et ~ata Gir. TH pref. p. 20; Ilio ~ato occisoque Laomedonte Alb. Lond. DG 3. 8.  b vastat, spoliat, ~at GlC U 53. 3 to fight or fend off. b to overcome (abstr.). c (intr.) to fight back. cum corpore namque et occurrentem diabolum ~at, ejus tentationibus viriliter resistendo Simil. Anselmi app. 193 p. 98; judica, Domine, nocentes me, expungna inpungnantes me V. Kentig. 6; s1295 exercitum fortem adunavit ad Scotorum injuriam ~andam Flor. Hist. III app. 286.  b impugnare namque potest invitam voluntatem, ~are nequit invitam Anselm (Lib. Arb. 6) I 218.  c ille [diabolus pugnat] invidia, tu amore fraternae dilectionis ~a Alch. Ep. 299.

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