lubricare

lubricare [CL] 1 (trans.) to make slippery, lubricate; b (in absol. use). viscosa humiditas meatus cerebri ~at per quos animalis spiritus debet fluere ad animales peragendas actiones Quaest. Salern. P 10.  b ~are, labilem facere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 323; reuma fit v modis: ex calore dissolvente ‥; aut ex humiditate ~ante ‥ Gilb. III f. 152. 1; sperma viri viscosum ‥ de facili quasi ~ando intrat Gad. 75. 1. 2 (intr.): a to slide, slip, glide. b (of structure) to collapse. c to slip (in moral sense), to behave immorally. a labitur, ~at GlC L 78 (cf. ib. D 134: delabitur, ~at); ~o, G. esclicer (Garl. Unus gl.) Teaching Latin II 164; ignis innoxius per rubum lubricat [cf. Exod. iii 2] Walt. Wimb. Carm. 90; fluxus lubrificativus provenit quandocunque ex multitudine fleumatis, quandocunque ex mollicie stomachi, et propter has causas cibus ~at [v. l. †lubrificat] Bacon IX 109; mulier ‥ permisit se cadere in luto magno, simulans quod ~assent pedes ejus Latin Stories 15.  b est ‥ valde mirandum ‥ quare non ~at sub tanto pondere cementi fundamentum [sc. phari Alexandrini] Greg. Mir. Rom. 30.  c numquam ‥ erit pudicus nisi quem ~are pudet T. Chobham Praed. 259.