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fellire

fellire [LLp. ppl.fellitus] , to taint w. gall, make bitter (fig.); b (p. ppl. as adj.). sic quos melliverat ante / edidicit fellire favos Hanv. VII 94.  b 934 ~ita hejulandae corruptionis amaritudine odibilis CS 702; Herm. Arch. 24 (v. discretivus 3a); ingenuus mellita parit, mellita ministrat; / pravus iners fellita [gl.: amara] pluit, fellita propinat D. Bec. 106; vas fellitum infestat vineam J. Howd. Ph. 892; fellitumque metu non puto dulce bonum Walt. Angl. Fab. 12. 20; c1428 per ~itam querimoniam Cant. Coll. Ox. III 81; angri, ‥ biliosus, ~itus, felleus PP.

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