procellere

procellere [CL=to throw violently forward] 1 (refl.) to put (oneself) forward, to promote (oneself). s1307 noluit alicui dominorum parificari, sic extollens se supra se cunctis proceribus ~ere, ipsosque contemptui habere ‥ disposuit Flor. Hist. III 139. 2 to strike w. punishment (in sense of 1 percellere 2). p1159 eos nullius contradicione vel appellatione obstante ecclesiastica censura ~as Reg. Glasg. 18; c1365 pena ‥ ~antur, quicumque ‥ convicti fuerint StatOx 165. 3 to affect (w. emotion, w. abl., in sense of 1 percellere 4). reges et principes pro tanta rerum mutatione admiratione ~untur, et cum tanto rege fedus inire, amicitias jungere, pacem componere gratulantur Ailr. Ed. Conf. 745B.

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