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porosus [ML] , that has many holes, openings, or pores, porous (also in fig. context). b (as sb. n.) porous body or substance. omne corpus ‥ ~is interstitiis subjectum est Adel. QN 22; cum auris et caput sint corpora ~a J. Blund An. 115; craneum ‥ cutis quedam ~a plurimum Ric. Med. Anat. 213; conponitur ‥ splen ex grossa carne ‥ rara tamen et ~a, ut possit suscipere intra se melancoliam Ps.-Ric. Anat. 37 p. 20; lapides ~i valde sicut sunt et pumices Ps.-Gros. Summa 632; [oculi] ~i sunt et rari et exeunt vapores et spiritus corrupti et inficiunt res Bacon Maj. I 398; peccata quidem populi per fenestras ~as terre vivencium sepius insorbentur Wycl. Ver. III 99.  b durities si poroso sit juncta metalla / quamvis humida sint esse sonora jubet Neckam DS VI 71.

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