maerere

maerere, merere [CL] 1 (intr.) to sorrow, grieve, lament (also w. causal abl.); b (w. utterance as subj.). c (pr. ppl. as sb. m. or f.) one who grieves. d (pr. ppl. as adj.) sorrowing, sorrowful, mournful. ? 693 (14c) reatum exsolvat proprium sine fine semper moerens CS 121; ipse [Orpheus] tristis et ~ens ‥ raptam Eurydicen lacrimabili deflevit carmine Lib. Monstr. II 7; aspectans contra merentes suo abscessu fratres Hist. Abb. Jarrow 17; ne me aestimes tuae mestitiae ‥ causam nescire; scio enim certissime qui es et quare ~es Bede HE II 12 p. 108; peniteat septem ‥ diebus, / noctibus et totidem merens Wulf. Swith. I 1402; que cum antea virum ‥ incitasset, tunc moerentem verbis lenire, labantem exemplis erigere W. Malm. GR I 37. b melos meret J. Howd. Ph. 318 (v. maeror a). c inter maerentes, orantes, opperientes Frith. 1358; quis gemens, ~ens, anxius, morbidus non hic mutavit dolorem tripudio ‥? Gosc. Transl. Mild. 1; ave, que merentum / es medicamentum / et fons gracie J. Howd. Sal. 29. 1. d convenere ad eam merenti corde parentes Wulf. Swith. II 873; me mea mērentem faciunt mala, plura mĕrentem Serlo Wilt. 2. 73. 2 (trans.) to bemoan, deplore, lament. turturi illi lugenti viduitatem suam suique [? l. sueque] solitudinis ~enti desolationem J. Ford Serm. 52. 2.

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