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fremere [CL], ~escere [LL], fremēre 1 to utter deep continuous sound: a (of natural agent) to rumble, resound. b (of wild animal) to growl, roar. c (of person or group) to make inarticulate noise, mutter. a contra ~entes fluctus [gl.: wedende yþa] et salsas gurgitum moles Aldh. VirgP 29.  b leones ~unt Aldh. PR 131; canum caterva ‥ qui latrando balatibus in ipsum hyando ~ebant R. Cold. Cuthb. 17 p. 32; ad similitudinem lupi qui ~ens et frendens atque crudeliter seviens Id. Godr. 51; leonum est ~ere, rugire Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 78; quidnam decentius est ‥ speculari circa Dei altarium aquilas bicipites ‥ centauros pharetratos [v. l. phaleratos] ~entes acephalos?  Ad. Dore Pictor 142.  c ~eo, i. sono, clamo GlH F 705; cum talentum tandem videt / non jam fremit neque stridet P. Blois Carm. 26. 11. 82; quando judex stomacatur, / frendet, fremit, et bachatur Walt. Wimb. Van. 87. 2 to groan, lament, moan. ~it, i. ‥ gemit GlH F 706; framea ‥ i. quoddam telum, eo quod meticulosos ~ere faciat Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 235; statim ~entes spiritu quasi extra se rapiuntur et tanquam arreptitii fiunt Gir. DK I 16; nunquam ‥ egredi voluit donec omni corpore tremente et ~ente omnis libidinis furorem edomando restrinxisset Id. GE II 10 p. 215; Lazarus ‥ pro quo resuscitando Christus flevit, oravit, ~uit [ME: mende him selven], et clamavit AncrR 125; ~escens Favent 16 (v. crucialiter); Latin Stories 99 (v. expavescere a). 3 to rage, rail. ast pueros stolidos, sanctum qui carpere vatem / et laniare student bombosa voce frementes Aldh. VirgV 293; dira fremens saevo passim cum murmure Martis / ignea inferni animabus Tartara complet Bonif. Aen. (Cupiditas) 188; daemonis ira fremens tantam vult subdole gnosin / fallere Frith. 599; ~entem regis iram graviter incurrerunt B. V. Dunst. 23; Ord. Vit. XIII 23 p. 61 (v. excaecare 2b); si quis ‥ de nece martyrum ‥ narrationem ceperit ordinare ‥ irasci, ~ere, et usque ad mortem persequi consueverunt [pagani] W. S. Alb. V. Alb. & Amphib. 2. 4 to complain, protest. ~it, i. ‥ indignabitur GlH F 706; W. Malm. GP IV 155 (v. debere 5a).

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