oppandere

oppandere [CL] 1 to spread out or in front of, to stretch, extend; b (part of body); c (curtain or garment, also partly fig. or fig.); d (banner, by unfurling); e (book, by opening). obpanso, objecto GlC O 47; ~o, oppansus, ic aþenige Ælf. Gl. 118. b oculis dissidentibus, naso recurvo, labris oppansis Gosc. Mir. Iv. lxxx; solebant inter pedes ejus sive tibias alterutra parte oppansas velut inquilini requiescere R. Cold. Godr. 55; manus prolatas contra advenientem videbatur ~ere Ib. 90 p. 100; stabat ‥ ille pronus, faciei manibus oppansis W. Cant. Mir. Thom. III 1 p. 253; brachio protenso, manu oppansa, ilico obdormivit J. Furness Kentig. 36 p. 223. c bene ‥ additur: extra velum quod oppansum est testimonio Bede Tab. 464; opansum velum in scena, quod undique pandat GlC O 220; maternae cupiens verecundiae mederi ejusque nuditatem oppanso velamine tueri Anselm (Ep. Anselm. 149) IV 9; oppanso ante fatiem velo W. Malm. GP II 87 p. 190; oppansa et lata nigrioris habitus indumenta habuit R. Cold. Godr. 204; que corpori veritatis quasi velum figurarum ~it J. Sal. Pol. 432A; si tu aurium vela et latitudinem cordis ad tumorem concipiendum ~as Ib. 483C. d cum duodecim vexillis oppansis Bower XIV 50. e librum coram se oppansum ‥ per folia ‥ evolvit R. Cold. Godr. 322 (v. evolvere 1c). 2 to open, make accessible. aedituusque graves oppandit agillimus aedes Frith. 1141. 3 (understood as) to cover. oppansus, velatus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 404.

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