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proturbare [CL] 1 (in mil. context) to drive forth in confusion, to rout; b (in fig. context); c (in non-mil. context). ipse potestates easdem contrarias ne mortales ‥ temptare valeant ‥ fortiter armis caelestibus ~at Bede Luke 333C; mediis se immiserat hostibus audax, / proturbans acies Christi testudine fretus Alcuin SS Ebor 542; milia multa manu proturbat, milia multa / axe supervecto J. Exon. BT VI 52.  b sic vitium carnis ‥ / integritas ‥ contemnit casta ‥ / aemula virgineis proturbans bella sagittis Aldh. VirgV 2568.  c cicnos agitabo fugaces, / arsantesque grues proturbo sub aetheris axe Aldh. Aen. 57 (Aquila) 5. 2 to drive forth or out, expel; b (w. abl., also transf.); c (w. ab & abl.). ilico squamigerum proturbat virgo celydrum / et procul in vacuas jussit reptare salebras Aldh. VirgV 2399; detrusis, i. expulsis, ~atis, exclusis, precipitatis, onbesceofenum GlH D 334; Britannia, quam Angli, victis a se ~atisque Britannis, Angliam vocant Eadmer Wilf. prol.; vana ‥ cultorem suum ~ant in tenebras exteriores, ad fletum oculorum, et ‥ penas inferorum J. Sal. Pol. 818B; 1168 scismaticus ex-Augustus, turpiter et ignominiose ~atus, ‥ transitu suam turbavit Burgundiam Id. Ep 249 (273); vir sanctus‥ orans jugiter ‥ pro rege et regno Anglorum, donec eum inde rex ‥ ~are curavit Id. Thom. 19.  b diabolus ‥ in speciem ursi demutatus est ‥ ut horrore ‥ virum cepto ~aret Eadmer V. Anselmi I 25; ille [humani generis hostis] ‥ subvertere inhians studium ‥ juvenis, multiplici eum versutia pulsat, pulsando territat, terrendo fatigat, fatigando ~are loco laborat Id. V. Osw. 5 p. 9; interea ij ‥ amicum Christi propria dignitate, possessione, terra ~averant Id. Wilf. 29; Eacides ensem librat divumque suaque / proturbat virtute virum J. Exon. BT V 504; eos [sc. pullos] ‥ nido ~at [v. l. perturbat] mater quasi degeneres Neckam NR I 23.  c non vos hec ‥ turbet, nec a veritatis tramite quoquo modo ~et Eadmer Wilf. 35; a domo, quam ipse fecerat, pium patrem filius ipsius irrevocabiliter ~avit Gir. SD 16. 3 to throw into confusion, disturb, harass, harry. rex glorie ‥ victum ‥ fugientem ‥ prosequitur, captumque cum regina morte in abyssum religat, regnum ejus ~at, captos ejus inde liberat Hon. Spec. Eccl. 1095A; s1138 subsecutus est rex David cum ‥ copiis suis, et ‥ res provincie ~are non omisit J. Hex. HR Cont. 289.

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