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pompare [LL] 1 to walk in procession. exulatores hic ~abunt Beunans Meriasek 72 (v. exulator). 2 to celebrate, glorify. b to make splendid, adorn; c (poetry); d (refl.); e (p. ppl. as adj.) splendid, ostentatious. Jupiter, ingentem quem pompant carmina vatum Aldh. VirgV 1373. b cornipedes mandatque suis pompare superbos; / ornantur faleris; splendescunt timpora bullis Wulf. Swith. I 1267; quatenus ille ad divinum cultum quandam stolam sibi diversis formularum scematibus ipse praepingeret, quam postea posset auro gemmisque variando ~are B. V. Dunst. 12. c littera quo docti non docte carmina patris / pompat Æthelwulf Abb. 515; cujus Sedulius poeta mentionem facit ‥ ita dicens: ‘cum sua gentiles studeant figmenta poetae / grandisonis pompare modis’ (Sedulius Pasch. Carm. I 17) Asser Alf. 1; hoc avet et bombis pompare poema superbis / gestit et hinc vanam — ventosus! — tollere famam Altercatio 37. d quare, rogo ‥ consentiret [papa] ‥ de potestate incognita, concedendo privilegia et terrendo inscios per fictas censuras ultra hoc, quod fecerunt Christus et sui apostoli se ~are? Wycl. Chr. & Antichr. 691. e 797 interdiximus servis Dei ut ~ato habitu vel sago vel armis utantur Bonif. Ep. 78 p. 164. 3 to be proud, to boast; b (w. abl., in or de & abl.); c (w. acc. & inf.). ~are, superbire Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 479; to be prowde, ampullari, arrogare, ‥, ~are CathA. b moderni itaque prepositi didicerunt a patre mendacii ~are in accumulato honore et pretensione potestatis abscondite Wycl. Blasph. 44; cum igitur omnes et singuli monachi perpetrant totum peccatum id ex consensu nephario, dum placet eis, et ~ant de opere Id. Apost. 40. c si sophista ~at se scire contenciose defendere Wycl. Dom. Div. 93.

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