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laetari [CL] 1 to rejoice, be delighted or glad; b (w. gen.); c (w. inf. or acc. & inf.); d (w. abl. or prep. & abl.); e (w. gd.). f (pr. ppl.) joyful, glad (also as sb. m.). residebat, vescabatur, bibebat, ~abatur, quasi unus e convivis agebat Bede HE V 5 p. 288; adveniente Guillelmo rege ‥ tota ~ata est Normannia Ord. Vit. IV 2 p. 168; famulus Dei mire ~atus eum ‥ Ramesiam dirigit Eadmer V. Osw. 20 p. 25. b s1312 ~atur ‥ comes adepte custodie, sed plus jocundabatur ‥ de sarcinulis exhauste pecunie Flor. Hist. III 151. c ~abatur cuncta sufferre Bede Hom. II 22. 217 (v. fimitas 2b); G. Mon. IV 5 (v. fulminare 2a); quis ejus imperio vinctos eduxit, / pro quorum se sterni salute letatur J. Howd. Cant. 293. d ~abantur de patrocinio ‥ patris Bede HE V 22 p. 348; in ejus ~atus adventu Alcuin WillP 12; ~abor in misericordia ejus O. Cant. Ep. 3; ‘subrepo’ quoque, si a verbo quod est ‘repo’ componitur, productione ~atur, sin a ‘rapio’, corripitur, et illud preteritum ‘subrepsi’, istud facit ‘subripui’ Abbo QG 6 (17); aeris caliditas vernalibus pluviis temperatur, et de temperie sua quasi ~ari videtur Alb. Lond. DG 4. 2; ut in jubilo perhenni leteris J. Howd. Cant. 107; 1363 nisi ipsius corporali possessione ~etur Melrose 467; tunc rex letatur super hoc quod fortificatur Gower CT I 33. e letor gesta canendo sua Garl. Tri. Eccl. 2. f erant in hoc campo ‥ sedes ‥ plurimae agminum ~antium Bede HE V 12 p. 307; agricolis ~antibus Alcuin SS Ebor 600 (v. frugifer 1b); letantium clamor W. Malm. GP V 219 p. 367; quis referat quot fuerint plausus ~antium Ib. V 273 p. 436. 2 (of plant, w. abl.) to thrive (on), flourish (in). platanus vino letatur, fraxinus apta / bellis humano leta cruore madet Neckam DS VIII 53-4; tritici grana que ‥ in terram cadencia fenore cum multo fructum afferunt et felici fecunditate ~antur Gir. Æthelb. 1. 3 (imp. ~are or ~are Jerusalem, beginning of the introit for the fourth Sunday in Lent, as sb.): a Sunday in mid-Lent. b payment due to archdeacon on Sunday in mid-Lent, offering made by parishes to mother church. a colloquium ‥ apud Wintoniam ad ~are Jerusalem Devizes f. 31v; 1201 die Mercurii proxima post ~are Jerosolim CurR I 413; 12‥ (v. frigere 3a); 1270 infra diem Jovis instantem ante ~are Jerusalem CartINorm. 179. b 1222 inter abbatem et conventum de O. ‥ et archidiaconum Oxonie ‥ lis moveretur ‥ super ‥ annuo redditu qui dicitur ~are Jerusalem Cart. Osney II 436; 1225 redditus qui dicitur ~are Jerusalem solvatur eidem archidiacono de ecclesiis eorum in archidiaconatu Ib. 438; 1282 vicarius solvet ~are Jerusalem, sinodalia et procurationem archidiaconi Reg. Linc. II 19; 1286 vicarius ‥ onera ordinaria et debita ‥ utputa procurationem archidiaconi, Quasimodo, ~are Jerusalem, et si qua sint similia ‥ inveniet Ib. 77; 1321 solvetque idem vicarius sinodalia et ~are ac vinum inveniet et oblatas Reg. Ant. Linc. II 144.

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