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hebetare [CL] 1 to make blunt (also fig.). ~atis securibus tuorum cadaveribus Abbo Edm. 8; mutat ‥ securis ligna secando, mutatur ipsa a lignis ~ando Adel. QN 44; nisi ‥ ebetasset G. Mon. IX 11 (v. 1 collisio a); ligones ~atas exacuunt R. Cold. Cuthb. 65; ~are, obdurescere, obtundere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 198; magus ‥ per artes magicas ‥ omnem ferri aciem †habetat W. S. Alb. V. Alb. & Amphib. 24; seviit hostilis gladius usque ad ipsum, post ipsum minime, ejus scilicet sanguine ~atus W. Newb. Serm. 901; s1251 ~atum est fulgurcum fulgore M. Par. Maj. V 264; s1377 ad ~andum gladium Petri Chr. Angl. 116. 2 (w. ref. to senses or faculties) to blunt, make dull or insensitive. nec tantis malorum offendiculis tuus ~atus insipientiae cumulo sensus velut quodam obice tardatur, sed ‥ Gildas EB 35; nomen habens furvum, visus hebetatur oborta Hwætberht Aen. 58 (Noctua) 3; †ebitat, fatuit GlC E 7; ebetato GlH E 95 (v. effetus); expavit Eoues, ~atus tam chorusca visione Dominic V. Ecgwini I 8; clipeum tanto conamine percussit ut sonitu ictus ‥ aures ‥ ~aret G. Mon. X 3; unde palati vires excitet ~ati J. Sal. Pol. 725D; quisquis ignorantie nebulis ~atur H. Reading (I) Haeret. III 1294B; in qualibet arte diffusio ‥ acumen ~at J. Mirfield Brev. 50. 3 to dull, lessen (pain). dies longior ~at laxatum dolorem Gir. TH III 12.

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