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madere, ~escere [CL] 1 (intr.) to be or become wet, moist, sodden (also fig.); b (by weeping, cf. 2b infra); c (w. liquid or sim. as subj.). fontibus in liquidis mergentis membra madescunt Aldh. Aen. 57 (Aquila) 7; ~it, humidum est GlC M 52; 10‥ ~entia, þa þanan ‥, ~escunt, ðaniað and wætigað WW; humidare, ~ere, scatere, scaturire, irrorare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 275; [Satan] in calami dormit secreto madentis J. Howd. Cant. 165.  b ~ent filiorum circumstantium gene V. Gund. 41; pleno mades oculo J. Howd. Sal. 24. 7 (v. 2a infra).  c respersio multa / sanguinis in toto maduit crudeliter orbe Wulf. Swith. pref. 516. 2 (w. causal abl., cf. 3b infra) to be or become wet with (also fig.): a (var.); b (tears, grief, or sim.); c (blood, slaughter, or sim.). a licia ‥ oleo madentia Aldh. VirgV 1428; insistunt operi nimio sudore madentes Wulf. Swith. II 522; imbre mademus, / fluctibus impetimur L. Durh. Dial. III 169; pleno mades oculo, / cum os aspicis sincerum, / fellis madens poculo J. Howd. Sal. 24. 7.  b dum plebs in exequiis dilecti regis adhuc ~eret fletibus Ord. Vit. III 11 p. 119; nocturnis lacrimis ~ebit insula (Proph. Merlini) G. Mon. VII 3 p. 387; post hec visa evi[gi]lavit et cervical suum multis lacrimis ~uisse reperit V. Chris. Marky. 25; ? c1280 tota tellus Anglie merore madescit [AN: de plur enmoistie] Pol. Songs 134.  c campi Bethleem ~uerunt cruore innocentum Ord. Vit. I 2. p. 9; mundus qui ‥ / ‥ humanis cedibus usque madet J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 552; quod tota caro proprio sanguine ~eret Gir. GE II 10 p. 214; [mucro] cruore madet regio J. Howd. Cyth. 18. 6. 3 to be sodden (with drink), intoxicated (also fig.); b (w. causal abl.). postquam madet bibulus / tunc deducet oculus / exitus aquarum [cf. Psalm. cxviii 136] P. Blois Carm. 25. 43; to be dronkyn, deebriare, ~ere ‥ ~escere, madefio CathA.  b digerentes vinum quo nunc ~etis Bald. Cant. Sacr. Alt. 727A (cf. I Reg. i 14, Gir. EH II 27 p. 303: potum, quo trans modestiam sumpto ~ebat, vix digerere valens; V. II Off. 7: ut ipsum vino estuanti ~entem redderet temulentum); vino virgineo grex apostolicus / madens est subito factus rethoricus Walt. Wimb. Carm. 143; hoc musto maduit ‥ / ‥ Petrus Ib. 144. 4 (in gl.) to become liquid, melt. 10‥ ~ens, myltende WW. 5 (trans.) to make wet or moist (also fig.). ~io, enmoyster Teaching Latin I 159; dixit [Canutus] ‥ mari ascendenti, “‥ impero ‥ tibi ne in terram meam ascendas, ne ‥ membra dominatoris tui ~ere presumas† Diceto Chr. 174 (cf. H. Hunt. HA VI 17: madefacere); occupat extrema stultorum gaudia luctus, / et risum lacrima plena dolore madet Gower VC VII 888; pars superior [mentis], que alas suas terrenis non ~uit undis Fortescue NLN II 64. 6 f. l. 10‥ †madendum, lotendra [l. mandentium, bitendra, v. ASD Sup.] WW.

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