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perciere

perciere [CL] 1 to stir into action, motivate, excite (in quots., p. ppl. w. abl. of circumstance or emotion). ira percitus in Kineardum insiluit W. Malm. GR I 42 p. 42; precipiti furore percitus, crinem antistitis involat Ib. V 439; exemplo vicinorum percitus Ord. Vit. III 5 p. 69; hac celesti visitatione perciti Ailr. Spec. Car. II 9. 554; rex ~us illuc adventans ‥ castellum ‥ obsedit G. Steph. 31. 2 (p ppl. percitus as adj.) swift, speedy. ~us, hraed GlC P 208; ~a, velocissima ofstige GlP 275; ~us, valde citus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 467.

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