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incordare

incordare [cf. CL chorda, corda] , to string, fit with bowstring. b (pass., of string) to be fitted as bowstring (in quot., fig.). 1221 mandantes quatinus illas [balistas] bene ~ari ‥ faciatis Cl 452; 1236 mittimus ad vos Johannem de V., balistarium, ‥ ad videndum omnes balistas nostras ‥ et ad ~andum et reparandum eas que incordatione et alia emendatione indigent Cl 265.  b que [corda] cum separatur a musculo ad juncturam vadit aut ad membrum movendum; et colligitur in se ipsa et incordat[ur] sicut corda arcuum Ps.-Ric. Anat. 4.

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