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irrorare [CL] 1 to bedew, moisten (w. dew or water); b (w. tears, blood, humour, or sim.); c (fig.). de aqua ro[sarum] ‥ ~etur Gilb. II 94v. 2. b caput ‥ fletibus ~atum Ep. Anselm. (149) IV 9; faciesque lacrimis ‥ ~abant R. Cold. Godr. 302; quedam fumositas ‥ siccitatem eorum [sc. spiritum] ~at Quaest. Salern. B 77; sudor sanguineus et cutis irrorans J. Howd. Cant. 329; ~ate ergo terram et mundate nigredinem Dastin Ros. 10. c doctrina Dei ‥ / arida divinis irrorans corda scatebris Aldh. CE 4. 10. 14; ‥ fragili da verba poetae / irrorans stolidum vivaci flumine pectus Alcuin SS Ebor 5; proflua predicatione populum ~avit W. Malm. Wulfst. I 14; nova conspersio non jam finitimas set et exteras nationes sic ~averat Mir. Wulfst. I 17; ut moveat lacrimas, animos emolliat, agrum / pectoris irroret, funde salutis aquam Garl. Epith. II 498; Christi serotinus nos ymber irroret J. Howd. Cant. 28; Rolle IA 145 (v. 1 cauma b). 2 (trans.) to sprinkle like dew. b (intr. w. dat.) to fall like dew (upon). praesul ‥ sacratas aquas debilitato ~at corpori Folc. V. J. Bev. 253; Herm. Arch. prol. p. 24 (v. guttatim); myrrha ‥ de labiis Jesu non corporibus sed animabus medendis ~atur J. Ford Serm. 23. 91. b Caecilia flammivomis balneis includitur, sed fonte vitae ei ~ante non comburitur Hon. Spec. Eccl. 1030A. 3 to water, feed, nourish (also fig.). ast ubi credentes inrorat dogmate claro Mir. Nin. 158; ut opus meum sanguine ipsius ~aretur et staret G. Mon. VI 19; hujusmodi [humoris] autem fomento ager humane nativitatis [i. e. the womb] ~atur [Trevisa: is ifed and inorischid] Bart. Angl. VI 3.

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