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findere [CL] 1 to split, cleave (also fig.). b to cause to split (also absol.); c (w. ref. toMatth. xxvii 51: scindere). d to slit. e to ‘split’ (fig., w. rage). materiem cuneis findit Aldh. Aen. 78 (Cupa vinaria) 9; cippum findit regnator Olimpi Id. VirgV 1197; in nato cujus finduntur viscera regni Alcuin Carm. 69. 119; mox summitate virge fissa pannos ‥ ad se trahere conari W. Malm. GP IV 183 p. 324; ~etur forma commercii (Proph. Merlini) G. Mon. VII 3 (cf. M. Par. Maj. I 202: hic primo secabantur denarii); corpora Turcorum ~ebant Ord. Vit. IX 12 p. 582; 1272 hoss’ [i. e. ossa] fendidit et nervos juncture cidit RCoron 1 m. 4; 1285 (15c) faber ‥ non capiet argentum ‥ pro massa asser’ ~enda (Slyndon) Cust. Suss II 4. b [fulminum] alia ~unt, alia scindunt Adel. QN 66; queritur unde accidit in quadam navi casu fulguris malum ~i et nummos argenteos cujusdam sedentis juxta malum converti in cuprum Quaest. Salern. B 124; qualiter fulgur aliquando ~it et non urit Ib. N 4; si nola pulsetur modico circumdata filo / findetur Neckam DS VI 80. c finduntur et fortes petrae / hiantur ante plurima / defuncta surgunt corpora Bede Hymn. 5. 8; velum templi in duo discinditur, petrarum duricia ~itur Hon. Spec. Eccl. 925A. d 786 equos ‥ detruncatis, nares ~itis Ep. Alcuin. 3 p. 27; 1353 tunicas quidam ad latus, quidam anterius habent fissas Doc. Eng. Black Monks II 66. e finditur et sevit, rabies, furor iraque crevit R. Cant. Malch. V 927. 2 to cleave (water, air, or darkness). classes et caerula findunt Aldh. Aen. 95 (Scilla) 8; cernis ut hoc pelagus late vaga regmina findant? Bede CuthbV 514; pes aquile, predo testudinis, aera findit Walt. Angl. Fab. 14. 1; illa palpabilis caligo finditur Walt. Wimb. Carm. 309. 3 to cleave, have a cleft in: a (ungula, w. ref. toDeut. xiv 6–7, also absol.); b (p. ppl. fissus) cloven. c cloven, segmented; d (her.) splayed. a mundum est animal ‥ ungulam ~ens et ruminans Bede Cant. 1192; Beleth RDO 58. 64 (v. fissio); ut per discretionem ungulam ~eret Bald. Cant. Sacr. Alt. 648c; animalia que ~unt ungulas molliores habent ungulas quam ea que non ~unt Quaest. Salern. B 80. b cur quedam fissas habeant ungulas Quaest. Salern. C 26; mundum est animal et fissam ungulam habet (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 65. c cavebatur ‥ ne oves immolande ‥ haberent ‥ linguam nigram, nec aurem fissam Alb. Lond. DG 6. 32; policaria folia habet fissa ut dens leonis SB 34. d decet Romanorum imperator [sic] in armis suis aquilam portare ‥ cum duobus capitibus, ‥ aquilam fissam et explanatam in campo aureo Bad. Aur. 118. 4 (w. ref. to abstr.) to split, divide (into parts). in geminas istud nomen se findere partes / creditur Aldh. VirgV 2661; haec pestis [haeretica] se ~it itinera ut paenitus quot sint investigari nequeant Bede Prov. 957; 1160 insolubilem ~ere molitus est unitatem Ep. J. Sal. 130; unitas ecclesie ‥ cepit ‥ a schismatibus ‥ in diversa conventicula ~i Hon. GA 689c.

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