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procurvare

procurvare [CL] , to bend forward. manum contractam dextra sua tetigit, et quasi ferula †contingentis [? l. contingens] digitos ~atos percussit R. Cold. Cuthb. 108; illa genibus ~ata ‥ procumberet Id. Godr. 131; ante limina ecclesie genibus ~atis prosternitur Ib. 152; agnine, vervecine carnes, et ovine, / ventrem procurvant, infla[n]t, caroque bovina (Modus Cenandi) EETS XXXII 2. 50.

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