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maestificare

maestificare [LL] , to make sad, sadden (freq. opp. to laetificare). 797 quantum caritatis recordatio laetificat, tantum absentiae lacrimosa longinquitas ~at Alcuin Ep. 124; nihil me tantum ~at quantum eorundem adversitas Anselm (Ep. 96) III 222; quantum ‥ ipsi de suscepto patre letificati, tantum illi de amisso fuerant ~ati Osb. V. Elph. 129; amodo leteris nec de me mestificeris R. Cant. Poems 7. 42; licet herodes Mariagnem in nullo ~are vellet, illa non curabat parem viro refundere gratiam Flor. Hist. I 84; eo intimius murmurat inolita pululare super terram ~atus per ejus absentiam omnis homo J. Lond. Commend. Ed. I 8.

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