palpitare

palpitare [CL] 1 to beat rapidly, pulsate, palpitate, quiver, tremble; b (of person, usu. from illness, fear, at death, or sim.); c (of part of body or sim.); d (transf., in fig. context, or fig.). ~ans, brogdetende GlC P 5; ~et spreawlige GlP 294; 10‥ palpitraret, clæppette and sprangette WW.  b vix solo anhelitu ~ans, cetera tabidus et in vivo cadavere jam premortuus W. Malm. GR II 121; jam ~abat arvis medietas hominis cum alteram cornipes volucri cursu asportavit Ib. IV 373; dominum suum statim post ejus abscessum estuare corde, vix lingua ~are Id. GP II 82; stridentes dentibus, nudo latere ~antes, aspectu horribiles Ailr. Inst. Inclus. 33 p. 678; quomodo ‥ tremebunt, quomodo ~abunt, quomodo se abscondere volent nec poterunt Id. Serm. 30. 19; cum ‥ equus et ascensor in profundo submersi ~arent in aquis vehementibus P. Blois Ep. 65. 190B.  c ~et [sc. retectum jecur], orþige GlP 711; miraculo ‥ ostentatur pulmo ‥ adhuc integra viriditate ~ans W. Malm. GP II 86; sola lingua intra fauces ~abat, que delictum diceret, veniam oraret Ib. V 259; tenuis adhuc vitalis anime spiritus in vexato corpore ~abat G. Steph. 97; omnino erat sine voce, solo spiritu in pectore ~ante Chr. Battle f. 105; preter id quod omnium animalium est, pectoris ~antis spiraculum, nichil cum vivis habere commune videretur Mir. Hen. VI IV 133.  d Christiani cultus infantiam pro nece germani in regno suo ~antem vivacitate regia erigere ‥ contendit W. Malm. GR I 50; ille, cui vetus animositas adhuc ~aret, assurgens Ib. III 235; ad manus ‥ blandientis alis ~antibus confugiunt R. Cold. Cuthb. 27 p. 61; ut nec motus voluntatis ad bonum ~et nec scintilla rationis vel modicum lumen representet Bald. Cant. Serm. 18. 74. 464. 2 (as frequentative of palpare) to touch, palpate. b (transf. or fig.) to perceive or handle (as if by touching). sepius pectus meum si forte esset fervor ex aliqua exteriori causa ~avi [v. l. palpavi; ME: have gropyd] Rolle IA 145.  b corrigit excessus, nec parvos palpitat actus Nig. Laur. 164. 3 to grope, feel for, try to find by touching; b (w. ref. to Deut. xxviii 29 or Job xii 25). ceperunt ~ando per ecclesiam pergere M. Par. Maj. I 339.  b ~ando per tenebras ‥ ceperunt ambulare V. Chris. Marky. 43; nisi quem percussit Dominus amentia ‥ ~antem meridie sicut palpare solet cecus in tenebris Ad. Marsh Ep. 92 p. 213; ex ‥ rebus extraneis quibus hodie utuntur deviatores in tenebris ~antes Ripley 118.