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extenuare [CL] 1 to make thin, lessen; also fig. b to weaken. c to rarefy. d to impoverish. V. et. attenuare. marceat, ~etur, geþynnige GlP 53; [luxuria] vires corporis ‥ enervat ‥ et totum corpus ~at R. Niger Mil. I 28 p. 112; quidam multum comedunt tamen sunt ~ati, quidam vero parum et sunt pingues Quaest. Salern. Ba 87; Ib. B 8 (v. desiccare 1a); corpori suo maledicebat, quod nec labor nec abstinentia frangere vel ~are valebant Map NC V 6 f. 68; Gilb. II 98. 2 (v. extenuativus); Gad. 45. 1 (v. atrophia); pondera peccati / sic extenuati Ledrede Carm. 17. 11; pulmo bibit humiditatem corporis nutrimentalem. ideo ~atur corpus J. Mirfield Brev. 74.  b 1167 ut vos ditet et roboret et adversarios vestros ~et et enervet J. Sal. Ep. 200 (235); cocodrillus enim quemlibet solo visu cogit ~ari Quaest. Salern. Ba 50; [luxuria] corpus debilitat ‥, potenciam ~at Spec. Laic. 49.  c humiditates ‥ aquarum longinquissimo intervallo, dum ad superiora trahuntur ~atas Adel. QN 75.  d 1332 monasterium ita ~atum esse in substancia J. Mason Ep. 59 p. 201; 1437 Bekynton I 7 (v. depauperare 1c); s1450 locupletissimum civem ‥ usque ad quadrantem novissimum ~abat Croyl. Cont. B 526. 2 (med.) to relieve. b to belittle, disparage. apponantur colyria ~antia et exsiccativa Gilb. III 137v. 2.  b 1164 honestatem cause vestre ~antes, excusatores regis et emuli vestri hoc temeritati ‥ ascribere conabuntur J. Sal. Ep. 134 (136 p. 10); nec ‥ ~amus Coenam Domini aut eam frigidam tantum caeremoniam esse docemus Jewel Apol. B 6. 3 (? by misinterp.) to plead, indict. Cf. extenuatio 2. ~ari, judicari vel in[dicari] GlH E 655.

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