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meare [CL] 1 to proceed, pass, travel; b (of person); c (math., of line); d (of time). eoas partes amo dum jubar inde meabit / finibus Indorum Aldh. Aen. 81 (Lucifer) 4; meantes, ambulantes GlC M 156; meat, manat Ib. 178; quo glaucis cupiunt crispare fluentis / littora, quin refluis satagunt nudare meantes Æthelwulf Abb. 96; [arterie] per quas hanelitus per corpus meat Bern. Comm. Aen. 8; aler, meare Gl. AN Ox. f. 153r. b frater ‥ / circumfusa means docet agmina Christicolarum Frith. 1322; angeli et archangeli de loco ad locum meant ad annuntiandum ceteri vero spiritus ad agendum Pull. Sent. 885C; Septembri quarto rex meat ipse sibi Elmh. Metr. Hen. V 935. c extrinseca vero inter punctum et diametrum omnium brevissima, reliquarum vero linearum infra circulum meantium linea diametro propinquior ceteris longior Adel. Elem. III 8 p. 94; linearum itaque per circulum transeuntium longissima GD supra centrum means Ib. III 8 p. 95. d quorum rite diem celebramus honore meantem Wulf. Brev. 395; post meantia tempora B. V. Dunst. 19. 2 (tr.) to pass through, traverse. quale modo multas migrando mundi istius meabit mansiones Hugeb. Will. 5; cumque venitur eo, via lata cacumina muri / ambit et arcis ita sepe meatur apex L. Durh. Dial. I 384; attamen armatos descendere vallis ad amnem / fecimus armigeras, vique meare vadum Ib. II 404; 1318 illam [sc. venellam] ita perforavit quod nemo fere ibidem potest meare CBaron 124.

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