obterere

obterere [CL] 1 to crush. b to destroy. demones cum rota plaustri ferrea ‥ et super dorsum peccatoris eam ‥ volventes ‥ dorsum ‥ flammanti rotatu obtriverunt Coggesh. Visio 24. b obtrivit, peremit GlC O 90; quicquid turbo bellorum obtriverat, reparavit ‥ Dunstanus W. Malm. GP II 91; ~ere, conterere, perimere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 403. 2 (p. ppl., fig.) crushed, overcome: a (as result of battle); b (by abstr.). a Mertii, non semel obtriti, obsidatu miserias suas levaverunt W. Malm. GR II 120. b confutata proinde penitusque obtrita utraque superbia ad Christianam eos revocat humilitatem J. Ford Serm. 66.8. 3 to speak of or treat with contempt. ~as, contempnes, forhogas GlP 705.

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