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praeripere

praeripere [CL] 1 to seize first (esp. w. ref. to prize or sim.); b (w. dat. of person, etc., forestalled). intenderat ipse hanc palmam ~ere Gosc. Aug. Min. 744C; nos pigritantes senes damnat aetas immatura ‥ et ante nos ~it corone insignia Id. Edith 91; dum premia omnium fraudulenter ~iat J. Sal. Pol. 468A.  b huic Alexis ~uit coronam Osb. Clar. V. Ed. Conf. 18 p. 102; 1166 nisi forte Ricardus de Sideberia juvenili alacritate diligentie tue ~iat palmam J. Sal. Ep. 157 (153). 2 to snatch away, carry off; b (w. abstr. obj.); c (w. sudden or premature death as agent). claves a clavigero ~iens Gir. IK I 12 p. 96.  b ne mens praerepta ab impio recedat a proposito Cerne 159; p1083 temporalibus ad eterna cruciandi tormenta sunt prerepti Ch. Durh. 3; nothus Alexandri filius regnum patruo ~ere affectavit Ord. Vit. VIII 22 p. 403; Jacob ‥ ei benedictionem ~iens Bald. Cant. Tract. 5. 447C.  c illa ne hoc perficeret morte praerepta est Bede HE III 8 p. 144; pro ejus ‥ laboravi salute, quem timeo forsan citius vel morte praereptum esse propter decrepitam in eo senectutem Alcuin Dogm. 233A; praecipites ‥ ruunt multi de rupibus altis / ‥ / ut sibi praeriperet longum cita mors cruciatum Id. SS Ebor 594; sed, ne mors acerba parvulum ~iat, aqua regenerandum comitetur Pull. Sent. 929B; Cnutone ‥ rebus humanis exempto, filiisque ejus immatura morte praereptis, Angli ‥ Edwardum ‥ in regem elegerunt Ailr. Ed. Conf. 744D; nobis avunculum tuum mors inopina ~uit P. Blois Ep. 12. 36A.

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