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maestuosus

maestuosus [ML] , (of emotion, matter) involving sorrow, sorrowful, lamentable. 1182 pium est flere mortuum, et hujusmodi moestuosos affectus lex nature indicit P. Blois Ep. 2. 4A (cf. J. Lond. Commend. Ed. I 7); 1282 quia dolor est meminisse dolorem, nos hujusmodi ~am materiam ‥ transeuntes ‥ Foed. II 215.

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