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pinguere [LL], ~are 1 to be fat. 1276 in pastore vitulorum et boum ~encium Ac. Stratton 192; to be fatte, crassere ‥ ~ere CathA. 2 to make fat, fatten. b (pass.) to be fattened, be fat. 1276 in stipendiis j custodientis vitulos et boves ad ~endum xij d. Ac. Stratton 74; 1276 in ij quarteriis draf ad boves ~endos, x d. Ib. 191; 1298 in porcis ~endis ij ringas [sc. fabarum et pisorum] Rec. Elton 73.  b monachi pinguati / laborare manibus hoc non possunt pati Pol. Poems I 259.

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