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foedare [CL] 1 to (sc.) befoul, pollute (also fig.). b to corrupt, make impure. Bede Prov. 1030 (v. faex 4a); non tulit Arnonus foedari templa sacerdos Alcuin Carm. 88.4. 3; Harpyias misit que cibos ‥ stercoribus ~averunt Alb. Lond. DG 5. 5; tirannus moritur fedans in funere / infernum anima, solum cadavere Walt. Wimb. Carm. 255.  b se ‥ nullo saecularis scoriae atramento ~atos fuisse confidunt Aldh. VirgP 10; quos inquinat ~antis lascivie colluvio Ad. Marsh Ep. 1 p. 79; luxuriosus in curia diaboli ~at [ME: bifuleð] se ipsum AncrR 77. 2 to disfigure, mar the appearance of. 930 cujusque †feodata [MS: foedata] flumine aeternarum lacrimarum timpora CS 1343; ut insanabilis lepre morbo in corpore ~aretur Ord. Vit. III 2 p. 29; apparet coram domino suo perfusus et ~atus [ME: bismeored] AncrR 77. 3 to damage, impair, destroy. bibliothecam ‥ nec per incuriam ~ari aut passim dissipari praecepit Bede HA 11; ~ata urbis moenia componere Ib.; Kings 735; 880 si quis ‥ donum in aliqua corrumpenda ~are pertemptent CS 547; ni ‥ prooemia ‥ degeneri vitiorum stilo ‥ ~arem B. V. Dunst. 1. 4 to discredit, dishonour, shame. illa, quam interius conscientia turpis ~abat ‥ V. Gund. 18; testantur eam [expugnationem] ‥ multa in posterum tempora multis cedibus ~aturam Gir. EH II 34; cedit quicquid diffamambat, / deformabat, et fedabat Walt. Wimb. Van. 18; vicia que mores ~abant W. Burley Vit. Phil. 194; s1052 cardinales ‥ ipsum [sc. Gregorium VI] ‥ indignum in ecclesia S. Petri sepeliendum adjudicant qui tot mortibus hominum sacerdotium ~asset Eul. Hist. I 261.

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