lactare

1 lactare [CL] , to flatter, wheedle, entice. 8‥ ~es, gæl [gl.Prov. xxiv 28] WW; si quis adulator te lactat, credere noli H. Cantor Vers. 222; ne credas adulatoribus, qui te ~ant P. Blois Ep. 3. 11A; prelatus ‥ rarissime invenitur, qui collaterales non habeat assentatores sibi, qui eum ~ant et palpant Ib. 15. 55B; vanis lactat fabulis Id. Carm. 15. 2. 7.

2 lactare [LL < CL pr. ppl. only] 1 to give milk to, to suckle, nurse, nourish; b (fig.). c (pr. ppl.) producing milk, in milk; d (p. ppl.). despiciunt ~are quos gignunt (Libellus Resp.) Bede HE I 27 p. 55; o gloriosa femina, / excelsa supra sidera, / qui te creavit provide / lactas [AS: thu sycst] sacrato ubere AS Hymns 75; hoc precipue existimamus fieri in ~antibus pueros Quaest. Salern. B 296; 1211 expensa: ‥ in agnis ~andis, xij d. Pipe Wint. 123; tanquam lamia ~ans catulos suos Peckham Kilw. 136; ex propria matre ‥ ~atus est Eul. Hist. I 38; s1422 quam prave perverseque sit generationis ‥ dominam contemnere que te ~averat (Lit. Abb.) Amund. I 93. b philosophie uberibus ~atus Petrus Dial. 3 (cf. J. Sal. Pol. 386C); gremio matris Ramesie exceptus, ~atus uberibus, monastice scientia discipline decenter imbutus Chr. Rams. 89; 1228 ecclesia, cujus uberibus ~atus sum (Lit. Episc. ap. Reg. S. Osm.) Conc. I 564; 1281 attendimus quod verba Eboracensis ecclesie que ~astis ‥ vos commovent et invitant Reg. Ebor. 281; 1298 degeneres filios ‥ ecclesia regenerans et eos suis ~ans uberibus Reg. Cant. I 225. c feminis ~antibus Gerv. Tilb. III 85. d simia lactata dicetur clunagitata ‥ i. regina predicta, vel alia mulier habens conditiones simie ~ate, vel habens lac in uberibus suis (J. Bridl.) Pol. Poems I 159. 160. 2 (of infant or young mammal): a (intr.) to suck milk (from breast). b (tr.) to suck milk from (breast). c (pr. ppl.) sucking, unweaned, infant. d (pr. ppl. as sb. m.) unweaned child. a 1449 ymago Beate Marie Virginis ‥ cum suo filio ~ante super mamilla dextra Test. Ebor. II 151. b 1329 sicut pie matris ubera filiis exhibent se ~anda Lit. Cant. I 304. c 1258 staurus: ‥ remanent in curia ‥ viij porcelli ~antes Ac. Wellingb. 3; habens filiam ~antem et reptantem Mir. Montf. 86; c1308 in ‥ j vacca cum vitulo ~ante LTR Ac 19 r. 41; matrona ‥ parvulum ~antem tenens in manibus Eul. Hist. I 151. d de quo ~antes evangelici ‥ cecinerunt Aldh. VirgP 30; Bede CuthbV 73 (v. 2 flatus 2b); infantes ‥ in aera pro signo attolluntur; ~antes ad saxa alliduntur Gosc. Transl. Mild. 5 p. 160; mors gravi viridem etatem copulat; / ‥ / lactantes laniat, lallantes jugulat Walt. Wimb. Sim. 122. 3 to milk (animal, also absol. & intr.). 1264 (v. 2 daia); 1275 in liberacione anelle ~antis oves, vij busselli Ac. Stratton 65; 1277 in liberacionibus iij mulierum ~ancium vaccas et oves matrices Ib. 85; 1285 iij mulieres de villa ydonee ~abunt oves domini per dim. annum (Loventon) Cust. Suss II 21; oves ‥ ~ari non permittantur Fleta 167; FormMan 21 (v. bukettus b); 1306 in stipendiis xxvj feminarum ~ancium oves et vaccas (Yorks) MinAc 1079/17 r. 3d.; 1319 de v vaccis ‥ conductis ad ~andum in estate Cant. Cath. Pri. 164n. 4 (p. ppl. as sb. n.) milk drink, posset. hoc ~atum, a poset WW.

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