larvare

larvare [CL ~atus as adj., ML also verbal forms by back-formation (but cf. TLL s. v. larvans)] 1 (~atus): a afflicted or possessed by evil spirit, demon, (as sb. m.) demoniac. b of, or resembling, ghost, spectre, demon, etc., ghostly, devilish. c ugly, hideous. a ~atos et comitiales ac ceteros valitudinarios pristinae sanitai restituit Aldh. VirgP 52 p. 310. b ut procul effugeret facies larvata [v. l. larbata] nefandi Aldh. VirgV 2252 (cf. id. VirgP 50 p. 306: atrum nebulonis fantasma). c 10‥ larbatos, hreofe WW; 10‥ larbata, se unfægera WW. 2 (~atus) masked, disguised (also of abstr., and fig.). b (jocus ~atus) masked play. c (as sb. m.) masked player. quid scelus Eutrapeli brumet, nescit nisi lesus; / ejus larvatos [v. l. larvosos] mores fugias scelerosos [v. l. sceleratos; cf. Hor. Epist. I 18. 31] D. Bec. 1233; ~atam ymaginem Priapi Neckam Ut. 113 (v. l.) (v. larvaticus); frontis nulla fides cum de mente ~a facies menciatur Garl. PP 18; s1295 tortoribus ~atis (v. effigiare 4); sic dicitur quosdam incarnatos dyabolos esse juvenes dyabolos vel ~atos, et quosdam inveteratos dyabolos suam maliciam detegentes Wycl. Pol. I 363; larvata facie sic fallitur ordo paternus Gower VC III 1265; visored, ~us -a Levins Manip. 49. 44. b 1515 Johanni F. custodi vestu[r]arum sive apparat[u]um omnium singulorum jocorum ~atorum vocatorum maskes, revelles, and disguysings J. P. Collier, Eng. Dramatic Poetry I (1879) 79 (cf. Med. Stage I 402). c contigit ut ‥ ~atorum ‥ et verbis et actu fieret representatio dominice resurrectionis Mir. J. Bev. C 328. 3 (var. forms) to mask, disguise, conceal. hunc ‥ quem religionis amictus / larvat Gower VC IV 310; pauperis in specie sibi sic elemosina predas / prebet, et ora lupi vellere larvat ovis Ib. 1120; nisi cautelis larvare sciat sibi leges [sc. causidicus] Ib. VI 33.

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