pressura

pressūra, ae, f. [premo], a pressing, pressure (post-Aug.).

• I Lit.: pressura palpebrarum, Ap. Met. 5, 17, 4.—
• • • 2 In partic., a pressing of wine, oil, etc.: pressura una culeos viginti implere debet, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317: oleum primae pressurae, Col. 12, 50.—
  • B Transf.
  • • 1 A pressure, burden: levare pressuram, Ap. Met. 7, 17, 20.—
    • 2 A press, throng, crowd of people: nimia densitas pressurae, Ap. Met. 3, 2, 20.—
    • 3 The downward pressure, fall, descent of water, Front. Aquaed. 18: aquarum, Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 4.—
    • 4 A too heavy, too long, unnatural sleep, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1 praef.—
    • 5 That which is pressed out, juice (poet.): Corycii pressura croci, sic, etc., Luc. 9, 809.—
• II Trop., oppression, affliction, distress (eccl. Lat.): pressuram persecutionemque perferre, Tert. ad Uxor. 1, 5; Lact. 5, 22, 17; 4, 26, 19; Vulg. 2 Cor. 1, 4.

pressūra, ae, f. (premo), I) der Druck, das Drucken, a) übh.: loci (der Lage), Sen. nat. qu. 3, 15, 7. – und das Drücken = das Gefühl des Drückens, per somnium gravedo atque pressura et veluti praefocatio, zus. v. Alpdrücken, Cael. Aur. de morb. chron. 1, 3, 55: palpebrarum, Apul. met. 5, 17. – b) das Pressen, Keltern des Weins, Öls, Colum. u. Plin.: prima pr. (Ggstz. iteratio, tertiatio), Colum. – meton. der ausgepreßte Saft, Lucan. 9, 808. – c) das Drücken, Drängen der Leute, Apul. met. 3, 2. – d) der Druck des Wassers, pr. aquarum, Sen. nat. qu. 2, 6, 5. – nach unten, der Fall, maior, levior, Frontin. aqu. 18. – e) der zu feste, lange, unnatürliche Schlaf, Cael. Aur. de morb. acut. 1. praef. § 17. – II) bildl., der Druck, die Bedrückung, Drangsal, auch im Plur., Eccl.; vgl. Bünem. Lact. 4, 26, 19 u. 5, 22, 17.

1 pressura [CL] 1 pressing, squeezing, pressure; b (as symptom of disease); c (w. ref. to torture, in quot. transf.); d (fig., w. ref. to hardship, affliction, or duress). ex quo mali graves et ponderosi, magna erit compressio in inferno post diem judicii: quia eorum corpora erunt mirabiliter gravia et quodlibet secundum ultimum potentie sue conabitur versus centrum. maxima ergo ~a ibi fiet. ‥ graviores loca centralia occupabunt, et minus graves loca exteriora, et sic erit minor ~a quam si fieret econverso Holcot Wisd. 92.  b Alina monialis ‥ dixit quod ‥ graves solita esset sentire augustias et ~as circa cor et toto latere sinistro Canon. G. Sempr. f. 145v.  c etsi die Martis beato Thome ~as quasdam et molestias inferebant tortores Capgr. Hen. 125.  d hec [sc. ecclesia] ~is mundi, quasi in torculari, calcatur, et Christo per passiones incorporatur Hon. GA 554D; nos dum pressurat [sc. Deus], per pressuram sibi purat Garl. Mor. Scol. 236; [proles Virginis] quam pressura preli / tormento crudeli / sic examinat / quod J. Howd. Sal. 21. 4; valete in futurorum cognicione, ut a superveniente ~a ‥ consequamini effectum salutarem (J. Bridl.) Pol. Poems I 124; abbas ‥ velut lapis vivus in domo celesti reponendus, crebris tunsionibus et multimodis ~is conquadratur Croyl. Cont. B 471. 2 (transf.) pressure of hardship, affliction, or duress; b (w. gen. indicating source or agent of hardship or affliction); c (w. gen. indicating sufferer or target of hardship or affliction). cunctis fidelibus ‥ qui per lacrimas ~asque praesentes ad gaudia aeterna pervenire contendunt Bede Hom. II 13. 155; omnipotens vero Deus ecclesiam suam in omni ~a potenter protegit Ord. Vit. III 12 p. 127; per ‥ pulsationes has, per has ‥ ~as, nitebantur ad hoc, ut genua ‥ curvaret et succumberet, et ut pressus, immo oppressus sic ‥ H. Bos. Thom. III 36; qui inter ~as eidem ex ipsis injuriarum malleis coronam glorie fabricavit P. Blois Ep. 138. 410D; s1243 fecit ‥ duos fratres ‥ incarcerari ‥ qui in carcere ob immanitatem ~e defecerunt Flor. Hist. II 267; s1337 de dampnis et ~is sibi et suis factis treuga facta primitus perdurante G. Ed. III Bridl. 132.  b ut ostendat sanctam Dei civitatem ‥ a permixtione et ~a civitatis diaboli ‥ immunem esse non posse Bede Ep. Cath. 67; virga equitatis Dei ubi quod sibi displicuerat in populo detersit per ~am Danorum V. Ed. Conf. f. 38v; sic sanctus ‥ fidelem sibi ministrum ab imminentis flamme ~a illesum eruit R. Cold. Cuthb. 37; 1240 pre gravi onerum ~a in suscepto officio Ch. Sal. 259; castro ‥ a ~is obsidientium ‥ liberato Leg. Ant. Lond. 28; si perfecte sciencie veterum invisorum bellorum ~is obnoxie non fuissent R. Bury Phil. 7. 111.  c c705 si ‥ cessante felicitatis opulentia ‥ secura dulcis patriae otia exulantis domini ~ae praetulerint Aldh. Ep. 12 p. 502; quod is, qui pastoris et medici locum occupaverat, in languente ovicula, non culpe ~am, sed veterem familiaris odii insectatus sit jacturam Folc. V. J. Bev. prol. p. 240; ab injuriis viduarum, ab orphanorum ~is Diceto YH 393; fratrum ~as ‥ et clamores cum bona conscientia preterire clausis oculis nec possumus Gerv. Cant. Imag. 63; ave, que torqueris / quando contueris / nati tedium. / ‥ / ave, parens pura, / cujus fit pressura / morte forcior J. Howd. Sal. 14. 2; a1276 nobilis vir Edwardus ‥ aspiciens Terre Sancte ~as (Lit. Papae) Reg. S. Thom. Dublin 491a. 3 a pressing or thronging (of people), press, throng, crowd. confluente ‥ undique ‥ multitudine ad ‥ solennia, debilis formidans ~am contendit exire ecclesia Gosc. Transl. Mild. 24 p. 191; convenerunt ‥ multitudo numerosa tam advenarum quam indigenarum ‥ ‥ ecce per medium ~e predictus Willelmus Map NC V 6 f. 69v; potest ‥ videri ‥ quantum metuenda vita est in ~a hominum [ME: imong þrung] AncrR 50; s1308 amplius premebatur maxima ibi ~a seu compressio gentium Ann. Paul. 261; tanta erat indisciplinata violencia et ~a posterioris multitudinis, quod vivi super mortuos caderent G. Hen. V 13 p. 90; s1404 in transitu, ad evacuandum populi ~am, tribus vicibus jactabantur missilia in vulgus Ad. Usk 91; 1432 cum in solempnibus conviviis diebus graduacionum per graduatos tentis ‥ tante ~e, tot inhonestates, talesque tumultuaciones ‥ fieri consueverint StatOx 244. 4 apparatus for pressing or crushing, press; b (spec. as cider-press); c (spec. as cheese-press, but cf. et 2 presura. d printing-press, (in ~is in quot. app.) printed. e sort of torture apparatus (in quot. w. ref. to thumbscrew); f (w. ref. to Crucifixion). 1271 in muro petroso de domo ~e emendando Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/35 r. 17d. (cf. ib. r. 2d.: in ‥ domo pressoris cooperiend’); 1407 in ij li pinguedinis pro ~is ungend’ KR Ac 754/29 m. 7.  b 1211 in ~a ad siceram emendanda, iiij d. Pipe Wint. 57; 1272 in emendacione presure ad pomos MinAc 935/3 m. 2; 1309 in domo que est pistrinum, et in alia domo ubi est ~a cisarie Cl 126 m. 8d.; 1418 lego ‥ j molendinum cum ~a ad siceram faciendam apud A. pro tota vita sua Reg. Cant. II 141.  c 1271 dayeria: ‥ in ~is emptis, xij d. Pipe Wint. 11M59/B1/35 r. 2d.; de v ulnis canabi ‥ emptis ad daeriam, precium cujuslibet ij d pro ~a emptis FormMan 15; inventarium plenarie compositum: ‥ in daerya, j ~a, iiij bukette ad lactandum FormMan 21; 1306 custus dayer’: in presuris emptis, xviij d. MinAc 1079/17 r. 9d.; 1314 in vij presuris emptis et factis ad dayeriam domini xiij d. ob. et ij caseos de rewayn’ Rec. Elton 214; 1346 summa [caseorum] ccvxxxv, de quibus in ~a iij; liberatos celerario ‥ vxxix caseos Rec. Elton 334.  d 1501 libri inventi in libraria ‥: ‥ exposicio Lathbury super Trenis in ~is in papiro Cant. Coll. Ox. I 23.  e 1388 per imposicionem unius ~e de ferro posite super pollices eorundem prisonum et alias diversas penas IMisc 242/21.  f pressus in pressura suspiro raptoris J. Howd. Cant. 105. 5 clothes-press. 1395 utensilia: ‥ una messa sub ~a, et ij in aula, cum tristils, pret’ v s. viij d. Test. Ebor. III 7; 1410 camera: ‥ de vj s. viij d. de una ~a lignea Ib. 45; 1454 unam cistam ligatam cum ferro ‥, unum armariolum prucie, ‥ unam magnam ~am de waynscott Ib. II 182. 6 (med.) compress. fiant pulvilli vel plumaceoli et ~e de stuppis mundis canabinis prius carpinatis deinde rotundatis Gad. 122v. 2; rectificentur pulvilli et ~e ex utraque parte labiorum applicate, quia ibi in lateribus debent ~e applicari totiens et tante quotiens et quante sufficiunt. et desuper ~as et vulnus ponantur duo aut tres de dictis plumaceolis madefactis et expressis, deinde plumaceolus secundus major predictis applicetur et tunc ligetur fortiter Ib..

2 pressura v. 2 presura

pressūra, æ, f. (premo), action de presser, pression : Apul. M. 5, 17 || tour (coup) de pressoir : Plin. 18, 317 || pression [exercée sur un liquide] : Frontin. Aqu. 18 || jus exprimé : Luc. 9, 809 || presse [de la foule] : Apul. M. 3, 2 || fardeau, poids, charge : Apul. M. 7, 17 || sommeil léthargique : C. Aur. Acut. 1, præf. || [fig.] tribulation, malheur, affliction : Lact. Inst. 5, 22, 17.