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inundare [CL], ~ari [LL] 1 (intr.): a (of river, sea) to flood, be in flood (in quots., dep.). b (of rain) to pour down. c (of tears or blood) to flow copiously. a ostium fluminis illius fluit in Sabrina et quando Sabrina ~atur ad sissam, et mare ~atur similiter in ostio supradicti fluminis Nen. HB 214; quando mare ~atur, ad mallinam extenditur Sabrina super omnem maritimam Ib. 217.  b ~antis pluviae tempestatem Wulf. Æthelwold 5 (v. erumpere 2a); tanta ‥ pluviarum hic jam ~at ubertas Gir. TH I 33; propter nimias pluvias, que mense Februario, sole Aquarium tenente, ~are solent Alb. Lond. DG 8. 10.  c Garl. Tri. Eccl. 135 (v. ensifer a); inundantes / tenera sanguinis in carne sudores J. Howd. Cant. 90. 2 (fig.) to flood, flow copiously, come in great quantities or numbers; b (w. army, nation or sim. as subj.). 793 a diebus Aelfwaldi regis fornicationes, adulteria, et incestus ~averunt super terram Alcuin Ep. 16; Anselm III 57 (v. exundantia); ut michi sp[l]endoris abyssus inundet J. Howd. Cant. 253.  b confluit urbs tota, ~at Cantia, undique concurrunt populorum examina Gosc. Transl. Aug. I 18C; hostilis exercitus ~avit, sacerdotes jugulantur Id. Transl. Mild. cap. p. 154 (cf. ib. 5: exercitus ‥ Tanetum ac si mare effusum obruit). 3 ? to overflow (with), abound (in) (in quot., w. person as subj., and abl.). [pontifex] in diluvio lacrimarum plorat, non ‥ Sancti Spiritus infusione et sui roris intima aspersione ‥ sed scilicet ejulatu magno et luctu ~at [? l. ~ante; cf. 1c supra] Gosc. Edith 90. 4 (trans.) to flood, inundate; b (fig.). [juvenibus] inundato tractis e carcere L. Durh. Dial. II 314; Egiptus ‥ regio est quam ~at Nilus fluvius Gros. Hexaem. proem. 12; 1313 per quam obstupacionem ‥ aqua de M. ~at et submergit domos vicinorum valde noscenter Leet Norw. 59; 1353 pratum acosum et sepius enundatum IPM 124/4; 1403 prata, pasture ac terre semmate ‥ per excessivas exaltacionem et structuram gurgitum molendinorum ‥ impediebantur, ~ebantur, vastebantur [sic] et destruebantur Cl 251 m. 22d.; foveam urbis profundam nimis et ~atam Strecche Hen. V 167.  b quomodo tanta ferarum milia, que antea copioso grege universam terram affluenter ~arunt, tam repente fuerint adnullata G. Steph. 1; post S. Edmundi ~antem regna favorem Gir. EH I 45 p. 299; omnia regna ‥ Cristi que nomen inundat Gower VC III 627. 5 f. l. 1218 †inundabunt [l. mundabunt] stagnum molendini predicti quociens neccesse fuerit Cart. Tutbury 356.

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