negotiari

negotiari [CL], ~are [ML] 1 to be active, to be busy. b (tr.) to cause to be active, to make busy. de beatitudine, que convenit Deo ex natura rei ante omnem actum intellectus negociativi, quia actus ~iandi non est formaliter beatificus Duns Ord. IV 248; si per impossibile non esset intellectus ~ians circa ipsam Ib. V 83; naturales ‥ ~iantur circa hec certificanda Bacon Tert. 43.  b cum lane et flocci regni nostri Hibernie antehac non fuerunt conversi et operati in pannum ‥ nec populi illius regni ‥ ~iati fuerunt, Anglice have bene sett on worke, in conversione et manufactura eorundem‥ Gild Merch. II 285. 2 to do business, deal, trade. b (pr. ppl.) one doing business, dealer, trader. c (supine of purpose) on business, for trade. d (tr.) to acquire by trade. foras omnes simul cum his quae ~iabantur ejecit Bede Hom. II 1. 115; 1235 eant per totam terram nostram ‥ emendo et vendendo et ~iando bene et in pace (Newcastle under Lyme) BBC 289; ut mercatores Anglie possent ~iare in Flandria Leg. Ant. Lond. 137; si quis istorum ~ietur, matrici ecclesie decimas et oblaciones de sua negociacione conferet Cart. Chester 522 p. 299; ipsi cives infra civitatem illam libertatem et licenciam haberent nogociandi, mercanizandi, etc Strecche Hen. V 174.  b 1178 exhibe te Joannem incestuosis, ‥ ~iantibus Christum P. Blois Ep. 15. 54A; neque fenerantibus neque officiose ~iantibus W. Fitzst. Thom. 2.  c multi eo ante a Monte Pessulano navigio venientes ~iatum fidem ejus ‥ in celum tulerant W. Malm. GR IV 388.  d 918 qualiter de terrenis ~aremur caelestia CS 661. 3 to go about one’s business, to deal with one’s concerns. si quis sine spe reditus chorum egredi voluerit, licentiam ~iandi petit a priore Obed. Abingd. 345; valeas, et ~iare consultius P. Blois Ep. 79. 247A; philosophus ‥ demonstrativa utens ~iatur ad veritatem, dialecticus ad opinionem J. Sal. Met. 861D; reversus ‥ ad natale solum, de talento scientie quod copiosius acceperat ~iari cepit Canon. G. Sempr. f. 39v; c1210 ut in casibus similibus discant decetero cautius ~iari Gir. Ep. 2 p. 164. 4 to function. exigitur ‥ preparatio organorum multiformium ad texturam humani corporis ordinandam, per que virtutes ~ientur Ps.-Ric. Anat. 1.