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oceanus [CL < ὠκεανός] 1 ocean (envisaged as a sea flowing round the world); b (w. ref. to sun setting on horizon); c (personified). Aegyptus a septentrione mare magnum ‥, ab oriente rubrum mare, a meridie ~um, ab occasu Lybiam habet Bede Nom. 1033; ~um, mare qui circumdat omnem terram GlC O 125; quos ultra fines ‥ trans omnem horizontem in infinitum per ‥ occultas vias solus ~us circumfertur et evagatur Gir. TH pref. p. 20; [mare] quod cingit terram sub polis Amphitrites vocatur, reliquum vero ~us Gros. 24; quicquid occeani sepitur cingulo / devota munia persolvit sacculo Walt. Wimb. Sim. 37; undique occianus circumfluens J. Foxton Cosm. C. 2 d. 5.  b oceano Titan dum corpus tinxerat almum Aldh. Aen. 58 (Vesper sidus) 3; Phebo in ~um proclivi W. Malm. GR IV 333.  c ~umque patrem rerum Alb. Lond. DG 5. 5. 2 sea; b (w. implied ref. to Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, or English Channel); c (w. mare, as apposition); d (fig.). oportet quod latior sit [sc. anima] ~o, excellentior celo, longior et profundior terra. T. Chobham Serm. 2. 9va.  b in litore ‥ ~i ‥ turres ‥ collocant Gildas EB 18; ossa in Rheni fluminis insula ubi in ~um prorumpit Lib. Monstr. I 2; quando et lumen lunae et reuma ~i in cremento est Bede HE V 3 p. 285; Britannia ‥ alter orbis appellatur quod ~o interfusa non multis cosmographis comperta est W. Malm. GR I 54; in orientali Anglia principatum tenuit. provintia illa ab austro et oriente cingitur ~o Ib. II 213; juxta villam que vocatur Cotum super occea[nu]m situatam non multum distantem a monasterio Chr. Kirkstall 122; ab occiano milibus distantibus sex W. Worc. Itin. 98.  c longius extra orbem, hoc est in insula maris ~i, nati et nutriti Bede Cant. 1077; occeanum mare ingressus in portum ‥ applicuit G. Mon. V 10.  d in miseriarum ~um pessundata fuisset Robertson Rolloc 13. 3 (spec.). ignis ‥ occidentalem trucique ~um [Atlantic Ocean] lingua delamberet Gildas EB 24; rubicundi tumentes ~i gurgites [Red Sea] Aldh. VirgP 4; juxta ~um Indicum [Indian Ocean] Lib. Monstr. I 12; ~um, garsecg, mer betee[Red Sea] (Ælf. Gl) Teaching Latin I 24; omnia inquietaverint Northmanni ab ~o Britannico [North Sea] ‥ usque ad Tirrenum mare W. Malm. GR II 127; ~o circumluitur ‥ ad Septentrionem Deucallidonico [North Sea around Scotland] Boece 1; ~o circumluitur ‥ Hibernico [Irish Sea] quod et Vergivium dicitur Ib.. 4 (~us Gallicus or Anglicus) English Channel. regressus ‥ ad Anglicum ~um Gosc. Transl. Mild. 11; ~us Gallicus Jus Feudale 96. 5 river. oceanum Rhenum sub te natet unca carina Alcuin Carm. 4. 65.

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