obsorbere

obsorbere [CL] 1 to swallow up, engulf. b to absorb. quia ‥ procederent ad ‥ ripam maris et ‥ fluctibus absorbendi [v. l. obsorbendi] deciderent Bede HE IV 13 p. 231; crimina ‥ / flammis obsorbtus ‥ persolvat in atris Æthelwulf Abb. 375; ~uit tamen tandem rivulum pelagus Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 114. b major pars vini et modica aque que a vino ~eri possit Conc. Scot. II 33. 2 (fig) to engulf, destroy. multa Deo et seculo digna ‥ vetustas obsorbuit [v. l.l. absorbuit] et delevit W. Malm. GP I 13.

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