murare

murare [LL] 1 (absol. or intr.) to build or repair a wall; b (w. internal acc.). c (pr. ppl. as sb.) one who builds or repairs a wall. c1140 pro omni servitio ~andi quod pertinet ad prefatum murum Cart. S. Fridesw. I 17; c1250 si debeat claudere, fossare, vel cooperire, vel ~are, ‥ operabitur ab ortu solis usque ad occasum Cart. Rams. I 393.  b 1336 in stipendio j hominis ~antis quemdam murum a porta ad introitum manerii DL MinAc 242/3886 m. 3; ~ancium j murum de luto Ib. 242/3886 m. 4 (cf. ib. 242/3886 m. 3: in stipendiis ‥ ~ancium pariet’ dicte domus).  c 1336 (v. 1b supra). 2 (trans) to wall, provide or separate with (defensive) wall; b (city, borough, castle, also fig.); c (gate or sim.); d (house or shed); e (cistern); f (cemetery, court, park, or tract of land). ~atus ‥ i. muro ornatus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 344.  b 793 esto ‥ civitas firma fide ~ata non domus pluviis diruta Alcuin Ep. 17 p. 45; Esonia civitas ‥ vetustissimo Cesarum opere ~ata G. Steph. 16; urbes ~ate, castra turrita Ailr. Spir. Amicit. III 77. 690; castella ‥ ~ata Gir. TH III 37; castrum seu villam ~atam Meaux II 333; dicte tres ville fuerunt edificate ante regem Lud, qui fecit ~ari London et Ludgate W. Worc. Itin. 96.  c 1297 porte ‥ ex utraque parte ~ate Doc. Scot. II 160; porta que vocatur porta inferni, quam claudebant sive ~abant Gallici (J. Bridl.) Pol. Poems I 212.  d per cancellos qui domum undique ~abant Andr. S. Vict. Sal. 37; 1278 in nova bercaria ~anda de terra Ac. Stratton 218 (cf. ib. 98: in j muro de novo faciendo circa bercariam).  e 1430 duobus latamis locatis ‥ ad cesternam apud quadrivium ‥ ~andam MS Devon RO Exeter Receiver’s Ac. m. 1d..  f 1277 in parco suo in curia sua summe ~ato de petra et morterio Hund. Highworth 45; in curia sua ~ata petra et morterio Ib.; 1336 in stipendiis iij hominum ~ancium iiij perticatas circa faldam DL MinAc 242/3886 m. 3; 1453 cemeterium sit mundum et ~atum in expensis popularium Conc. III 565a; 1496 operantibus ac ~antibus le warant molendini juxta monasterium x s. Ac. Durh. 654. 3 to wall up (a doorway). 1511 ~atum est ostium (Rent. Durh.) DCDurh. f. 216. 4 to hem in, enclose. alios [sc. rebelles] ‥ in loca montana ~abat Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 4 p. 9.