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juvenalis

juvenalis [CL] 1 (of part of body) of a young man or woman, youthful. b (vena ~is) vein behind the ear. ~ia et juvenilia unum est GlC I 529.  b si incidantur vene ~es retro aures, homo non general Gad. 37. 2. 2 (of emotion, behaviour, quality, or sim.) characteristic of a young man or woman (usu. pejorative). Bede HE V 6 (v. juvenilis 2); ~i dilectione Ketel J. Bev. 282 (v. 2 dilectio 1b). 3 (of age) young. vertice Castalidum juvenali et pangite stemma Alcuin Carm. 14. 7; exaudi preces nostras super hunc famulum tuum ~is aetatis [gl. gigoð] Rit. Durh. 97. 4 (as given name, spec. of CL poet) Juvenal. antepaenultimam producat ~is in satiris Aldh. PR 133; ~is: testiculi postquam coeperunt esse bilibres / tonsoris Licini dampno rapit Heliodorus Abbo QG 16 (37); ~is cecum quandam Neroni dixisse in libro suo commemorat G. Mon. IV 16; Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 217 (v. 1 forulus 1); respice enim ad Horatium, ~em et Stacium, Vergilium. in omnibus se imitantur Bern. Comm. Aen. 75.

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