perurere

perurere [CL] 1 to burn completely, consume with fire or heat; b (fig.); c (ellipt. or absol.). portas Hierusalem flammis hostilibus esse perustas Bede Ezra 884; aurea sol oriens orbi qua spicula mittit / qua mediumque diem fervente calore perurit Wulf. Swith. I 464; ignibus ast alii flammaque vorante perusti Id. Brev. 450; lunares radii carnes fructusque perurunt J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 997; Jovis est ignis ethereus simplex et innocuus nihilque ~ens Alb. Lond. DG 10. 4. b a985 frigore stridentes. fervore perusti. letitia privati (Æthelwold Ch.) Conc. Syn. 126; igne perusta Dei populorum pectora fervent Wulf. Poems 12; 1171 generales [angustias] mundus agnovit, sua quemque miseria ~it acrius nisi ‥ J. Sal. Ep. 304 (305 p. 724). c fervidus Augustus, Leo torrens igne perurit Kal. M. A. I 411. 2 to affect as if with fire or by burning (w. ref. to drying up or inflammation). protinus incandens arsura replevit et ingens / illius volam, nimio turgore perustam Wulf. Swith. II 349; s1094 tunc magna siccitas gramina terre perussit Ord. Vit. IX 2 p. 461; guttam committit et corda siligo perurit D. Bec. 2700.

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