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gestire [CL] 1 to be desirous, eager. b (trans.) to desire; c (w. inf.). quos ‥ Dei famulus conpescuit, nolens aliquem sua causa perire, qui in salute ~iebat omnium Alcuin WillP 15; 1167 desiderans ut ei quandoque valeam, prout ~it animus, respondere J. Sal. Ep. 254 (221); expressit in semetipso formam ecclesie in fetum numerosiorem ~ientis W. Newb. Serm. 844; coveiter ‥, ~ire Gl. AN Ox. 154r.  b cum tale nefas gestiret mente malignus Aldh. VirgV 1850; Vinsauf PN 638 (v. gesticulator b); Arthurus ‥ unicolores vaccas renuit, et in anteriori parte rubeas et in posteriori candidi coloris distinctas ‥ ~ivit (Cadocus) NLA I 170.  c femineos ‥ non gestit cernere vultus Aldh. VirgV 718; c797 quosdam stellarum ordine ‥ inluminare ~io Alcuin Ep. 121; B. V. Dunst. 1 (v. gemmatim); 1004 districto judici placere ~iens CD 710; 1169 affectum quin in partum gratulationis erumpere ~iat nulla vis potest ‥ cohibere J. Sal. Ep. 288 (290); hec ‥ si quis audire ~ierit ‥ libellum legal Gir. TH II 43; aper ‥ cespitem ‥ colliculi ‥ eviscerare ~iens J. Furness Kentig. 24 p. 202; opere ‥ votum ~iens prelibatum efficere Chr. Battle 22v; juvent me pueri ‥ / quorum mundicie devoto munio / et celibatui servire gestio Walt. Wimb. Palpo 164; qui ‥ ~iunt hujus [Christi] ‥ laudes et preconia frequentare Mir. Hen. VI I prol. p. 7. 2 to exult, leap about unrestrainedly. †gescire, gaudere GlC G 78; traditus in sensus improbitatem zeli mali circa locum sancti ~iens amaritudine Herm. Arch. 25; cepit ‥ ~ire pre gaudio Ailr. Gen. Regum 392; Johannes [Baptista] ‥ matris utero clausus, in adventu Domini ‥ concepti ~iens Uhtred Inst. xx.

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