mellire

mellire [ML; CL p. ppl. only] 1 to mix or sweeten with honey or sim; b (fig.). idromellum, aqua ~ita, que et Anglice meda dicitur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 291; quos melliverat ante, / edidicit fellire favos Hanv. VII 93 (v. fellire a); abstineant se a vino, a medone atque cervisia ~ita tribus diebus per hebdomadam Rob. Flamb. Pen. 255; offas ~itas lacte vaccineo Stat. Linc. II 414. b nihil quod non dulcissimi nominis Jesu fuisset melle ~itum ‥ meum sibi ex toto rapiebat affectum Ailr. Spir. Amicit. prol. 660A; dat opes dolus amplas / causidicis, mellit successus, ditat, amenat D. Bec. 1508; clericus aut miles ad te si venerit hospes, / occurrens properes illi mellire salutes Ib. 2344; hec michi pax mellit: toxicat illa timor Walt. Angl. Fab. 36. 18; cum [nomen] profertur ex lingua libera / mellit auras, pigmentat aera J. Howd. Ph. 355. 2 (p ppl. as adj.) sweetened with honey, honeyed. b (harundo ~ita) sugar-cane. c (pomum ~itum) date (fruit). d (fig.). e (as personal name) Mellitus. ~itae [gl.: unigswettre] dulcedinis gustum ‥ praecellit Aldh. VirgP 7 p. 234; que aqua ~itum ‥ saporem prebuit Hon. Spec. Eccl. 922A. b arundines ~itas W. Malm. GR IV 374 (v. 1 canna 1b). c ~itis pomis W. Malm. GR IV 377 p. 442 (v. dactylus 3a). d ~ito ‥ ore ‥ illuminantur ‥ oculi mentis Bede Sam. 589; 956 ideo certis adstipulationibus ~ita oracula divinae clamationis nos frequentativis hortationibus suadet Ch. Burton 14; commonuit interea ejus diocesis presulem Melitum ut beato ~iti cordis Petro fundatum consecraret locum Sulcard f. 12; vox cignea, ‥ ~ita facundia Gosc. Edith 68; carmine mellito tibi scribimus hoc bene scito (Vers.) M. Rievaulx 49. e Laurentius, ~itus, et Justus episcopi Bede HE II 4 p. 87; Sulcard f. 12 (v. 2d supra); cui sanctus ~itus ‥ prefuit Ailr. Ed. Conf. 756A. 3 (p. ppl. as sb. n.) honey-sauce. mel ad ~itum, super pultes in Quadragesima infundendum, coquinario inveniet Chr. Abingd. II 397.

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