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metuere [CL] 1 to fear, be frightened of. b (w. inf.) to fear (to); c (w. acc. & inf.); d (w. ne); e (impers. pass.); f (pr. ppl. w. gen. or dat.); g (gdv.) fearsome, to be feared. ostrea quem metuit duris perterrita saxis Aldh. Aen. 37 (Cancer) 6; nequaquam minas principis ~it Bede HE I 7 p. 19; ne metuas nunc me, dulcissima conjux Alcuin SS Ebor 895; nil metuens ergo pertransit gramina tuto Frith. 800; doter, ~ere Gl. AN Ox. f. 154r..  b arcam testamenti ‥ contingere non ~ens Aldh. VirgP 45; o quam felix ‥ conscientia quae ‥ dicere non ~it ‘Domine tu scis quia amo te’ Bede Hom. II 22 p. 216; ut prave agere ~at Id. HE II 1 p. 78; flumina qui metuat modica sulcare carina Alcuin Carm. 76. 2. 1; his faber ammonitus metuens sicophanta videri Wulf. Swith. I 87; ut homini placere volentes Deo ~erent displicere V. Edm. Rich C 607; Herodes metuens honores regios / per novum perdere regem Walt. Wimb. Carm. 248; 1390 expelli ~unt FormOx 229.  c plus se terrenus mundani cultor agelli / hic metuat multo gypsam lacerare superbam Aldh. VirgV 2751; 1283 ~entes se sententialiter succumbere in eisdam Conc. II 100a; 1301 ~entes ‥ turbari et immutari ‥ eorum libertates per eundem [sc. visitatorem] Ib. 267a..  d metuunt ne funditus omnis / jam caderet citius veterum cultura deorum Alcuin SS Ebor 1052; prius enim mentem ~ere facit, ne pro peccatis suis a Deo separetur Simil. Anselmi 131.  e de cujus exitu de die in diem ~itur Ad. Marsh Ep. 33 p. 133.  f non ‥ ~ens bellorum Enc. Emmae II 2; s1397 rex sibi ~ens Wals. HA II 224.  g belua nuncupari potest quicquid in terris aut in gurgite in horrendi corporis ignota et ~enda reperitur forma Lib. Monstr. II pref; terra marique ~endus dominus noster Hinguar Abbo Edm. 7; 1388 ~endissime domine, vestre dominacionis excellencie patefacimus ‥ quod ‥ MunAcOx 795; 1433 vestre ~endissime celsitudini EpAcOx 107; s1455 ~endissimam personam vestram Reg. Whet. I 184; 1493 rex ~entissime Cl 363 m. 4d.. 2 (intr) to be afraid. haud metuit princeps Aldh. VirgV 2695; solum ignavus ~ere potest Prov. Durh. 22; mirantur et ~unt Romani Map NC II 17 f. 29.

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