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obstrudere, obtrudere [CL] 1 to block, close completely; b (door, opening, or sim.); c (mouth); d (ears); e (med.); f (fig., faculty of memory). jam ‥ †per [l. prae] ~sis cavernarum rivulis novam et integram se veritas prodat ex utero Theod. Laterc. 1; obtrudite, fordyttat GlP 698.  b intra cellulam obstruso exitu contineri tutius estimabant Ailr. Inst. Inclus. 2; nec umquam patentes [januas] sed semper sibi obstrusas ‥ repperit R. Cold. Cuthb. 129; 1200 obstrusit portas (v. obstruere 3); antea vero erant fenestre virgis et stramine obstruse Swafham 107; 1408 os putei aquas recipientis lapide grandi ‥ stat obstrusum Conc. III 306b.  c obstruso tacuit non laeti pectoris ore / vir Æthelwulf Abb. 370.  d auribus obstrusis, penitus obsurduit J. Furness Walth. 117.  e nervo obstruso per quem discurrit spiritus animalis, cessavit memoria Quaest. Salern. Ba 80.  f quod non rationis necessitas sed obstrusa facultas recolendi quod volumus et tarditas memorie superinduxit Senatus Ep. Conc. xlix. 2 to shut out, expel: a (person); b (smell). a qui [sc. Johannes Baptista] Dominum obstrusus sensit genetricis ab alvo / pignus caelorum terris gestante Maria Aldh. VirgV 397; dux ‥ castellum obsidione vallavit, a cujus ingressu cum Hugo se videret obtrusum [W. Jum. VI 5 p. 53: exstrusum [vv. ll. obstrusum, exclusum]] ‥ Diceto Abbr. Norm. 257; s1125 coronatur a papa Innocentio, obtruso quoque Petro, qui papatum invaserat Eul. Hist. I 385.  b reposuit tegmina nardifluo foramini ‥ . illico obtrusus odor velut exclusus lucis radius evanuit. rursus ille detexit, rursus ‥ effusus odor redolevit Gosc. Transl. Aug. 27A. 3 (p. ppl. as adj. assoc. w. abstrusus): a closed from view, hidden, secret; b closed off from understanding, incomprehensible. a meditantium mentes facilius flectuntur prolatis exemplorum formulis stolidae obstrusum ignorantiae latibulum illustrantibus quam nuda garrulorum loquacitate verborum Aldh. Met. 10 p. 84; sagittarum spicula de obstrusis faretrae latibulis depromens Id. VirgP 2; in obstruso thalami cubiculo Ib. 37 p. 285; obstrusa, occulta GlC O 98; 10‥ de obstrusis, of ðæm diglum WW.  b dum chaos obstrusum et torpens confusio rerum / tetrica terrificis texisset saecla latebris Aldh. VirgV 511; a705 arcana liberalium litterarum studia ‥ ignaris ‥ mentibus obstrusa ‥ propalarat (Æthelwald) Ep. Aldh. 2 (7).

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