potare

potare [CL] 1 (trans.) to take in liquid, drink (also in fig. context); b (holy water as cure for illness). c to drink from or of (w. acc. of source). he sunt aque de puteo Samarie, que plus pote plus accendunt concupiscentie sitim P. Blois Ep. 102. 317B; aquam si ‥ crudam ~es ‥ mors imminet Gir. TH I 35; aque pote equis ‥ pestifere Ib. II 7; 1388 evaserunt a gaola ‥ ~averunt unum dolium vini rubii ‥ quod fuit predicti archiepiscopi IMisc 240. 14.  b benedixi aquam, et astulam roboris ‥ inmittens obtuli egro ~andum Bede HE III 13 p. 153.  c divaricant prunas veribus potantque lacunas R. Cant. Malch. I 405. 2 (intr.) to drink (to satisfy thirst); b (convivially, esp. w. implication of drinking intoxicating drinks); c (spec. as entitlement allowed in spec. circumstance). cum corpus mortui miles custodiret, / ut labore nimio siccatus sitiret, / et ad dictam feminam potandi [sic] veniret Latin Stories 156.  b ad domum sacerdotis ‥ cum hospitibus ~aturus accessit R. Cold. Cuthb. 17; qui modice potare velit, potet moderanter D. Bec. 2374.  c 1262 provisum est per forewardmannos quod ~abunt die Dominica ante Pentecostem Gild Merch. II 5; c1352 sic operabuntur usque ad primam pulsacionem vesperarum, et tunc ~abunt infra logium usque ad terciam pulsacionem propulsatam, et redibunt ad opera sua Fabr. York 172. 3 (trans.) to cause to drink (also fig.); b (w. instrumental abl., also fig.); c (w. ref. to Psalm. xxxv 9); d (w. ref. to Psalm. lxviii 22). e (p. ppl.) drunk, intoxicated (also fig.). Samsonem quoque de maxillis asini sitientem ~avit V. Cuthb. III 3 (cf. Jud. xv 19); Johannes cum gratia me ~et ab Omnipotentis pectore Ps.-Bede Collect. 383; miseris condolebat, pauperes recreabat, esurientes pascebat, sitientes ~abat Dominic V. Ecgwini I 15; eos ‥ sic cibat, sic ~at, sic in tricliniis fulcit J. Sal. Pol. 725C; c1243 attendentes siqui Christum in membris suis non paverunt vel ~averunt Gros. Ep. 87; de ventris dolio potantur celici, / potantur etiam omnes catholici Walt. Wimb. Carm. 133.  b nam et usque hodie multi de ipso ligno sacrosanctae crucis astulas excidere solent, quas cum in aquas miserint eisque languentes homines aut pecudes ~averint Bede HE III 2 p. 129; pectore de gnaro pandit salutaria dicta / imbribus atque piis sitientis corpora potat Æthelwulf Abb. 103; comites potabat fonte Frith. 1129 (v. ductor 2a); animam meam vestra dulcedine ~abatis? Anselm (Or. 14) III 58; et modo incipientes, et teneros lacte quodam ~at historie Ad. Scot TT 630A; s1461 gens lactata Styge, potataque plebs Acheronte Reg. Whet. I 399.  c inebriebantur ab ubertate domus Dei et torrente voluptatis ejus ~abantur Ailr. Ed. Conf. 760D (= Ciren. II 268).  d Jovinianus ‥ potu dulcissimo felle commixto multos ~avit Ps.-Bede Collect. 327; post hec inter latrones cruxifixus, capitum agitatione et verborum exprobatione irrisus, aceto cum felle ~atus Eccl. & Synag. 96; Deus pro nostra infirmitate felle ~atus [ME: dronc] est in cruce AncrR 142; aceto ~ari volo, totum sanguinem exhauriri et in cruce mori G. Roman. 354; s1436 tanquam felle ~ati intoxicati sunt Plusc. XI 9.  e juvenem Robertum ‥ cum potus a taberna digrederetur, aggressi sunt quidam malevoli qui vite ejus insidiabantur W. Cant. Mir. Thom. IV 26; si fueris potus, te potum nesciat hospes D. Bec. 1384; s1174 sancta ‥ martyris aqua ~atus ‥ a Cantuaria recessit Gerv. Cant. Chr. 249; torrente voluptatis spiritualis ~atus J. Furness Walth. 64. 4 (transf.) to apply liquid to (in quot., w. ref. to separation of metals). et [cineres ulmi] plumbum potando tegunt, plumboque direptum / enatat argentum, nil modo sordis habens L. Durh. Dial. II 177.