pudere

pudere [CL], pudescere [LL] 1 to fill with shame: a (impers. also w. gen. to specify cause of shame); b (w. inf. or acc. & inf. as subj.); c (w. n. pron. as subj.). a ~escit, me sceamaþ GlP 73; puduit principem dicti W. Malm. GP I 50; ~eat ergo religionem professos tot et tanta superflua querentes Andr. S. Vict. Sal. 85; unde non parum ~et quorumdam impudentie qui cum in sordibus senuerint ‥ Ailr. Inst. Inclus. 19; pudenda parent nec ~et, sui impos potenti virtute plurima exercet T. Mon. Will. VI 5 p. 225; ~et me, fratres mei, paupertatis nostrae in hac parte J. Ford Serm. 12. 2. b attendite verba Domini ‥ quae et vos ‥ in medium crebro proferre non ~et Gildas EB 96; nec ~eat Christi caelibes ‥ Toronici reminisci pontificis Aldh. VirgP 26 p. 260; ~et [gl.: sc. me] referre quorundam frontosam elationis impudentiam Ib. 58 p. 317; nec ~ebat archiepiscopum ‥ pauperibus cibos apponere W. Malm. GP I 43; non ~ebat olim nudos sua cunctis patere pudenda P. Blois Opusc. 1022C; ~uit me sine signo reverti Map NC III 2 f. 36v. c proh dolor! sic est ingredi domos quorumdam episcoporum nostrorum, et quod magis ~et, cucullatorum, quasi quis ingrediatur Sodomam et Gomorrham Ailr. Spec. Car. III 26. 600. 2 to be ashamed, to be filled with shame. puses conticuit facieque pudente rubescit Wulf. Swith. II 417; verecundus vel ~ens, scamfæst Ælf. Gl. sup. 172; quo fugitis timidi? ‥ attamen ne ~eatis me fugere, quia quamplures gigantes ‥ ad Tartara transmisi Eul. Hist. II 213. 3 (gdv. ~endus as adj.) shameful; b (w. membrum or sim., w. ref. to sexual organ). c (as sb. n. usu. pl.) pudenda, private parts (about which one ought to be modest). nec non extales multavit poena pudenda Aldh. CE 4. 2. 22; locus ~endus nostri evi episcopis in quo episcopalis dignitas diversari deberet W. Malm. GP IV 172; verba pudenda loqui, turpia facta sequi (Vers.) Ord. Vit. XI 40 p. 300; o rem ~endam! Ailr. Spec. Car. II 5. 549D; materiam turpem breviter pertranseo quando / causa pudenda forum judiciale subit Neckam Poems 458; ~endorum actuum feditas operitur ne a superno judice videatur S. Langton Serm. 4. 33; revelabo ‥ tua ~enda peccata [ME: þine scheome sunnem] AncrR 123. b penus [l. penis], res ~enda GlC P 297; s1402 femine Wallencium ‥ genitalia peremptorum absciderunt et membrum ~endum in ore cujuslibet mortui posuerunt testiculosque a mento dependere fecerunt Wals. HA II 250. c [Picti] magis vultus pilis quam corporum ~enda ~endisque proxima vestibus tegentes Gildas EB 19; potest in ficu cujus foliis protoparentes nostri post agnitionem praevaricationis sua ~enda texerunt velamentum excusationis intellegi Bede Ep. Cath. 29; penis, natura, ~enda, virilia GlC P 351; ~endorum sanies solo ejus visu in sanitatem refloruit W. Malm. GP I 46; illam maledictionem incurrunt qua Noe maledixit filium suum qui ~enda patris irrisit [cf. Gen. ix 22–5] Ailr. Serm. 17. 10. 296; quare ciconia in hieme precipitet se in aquam et rostro ~endo infixo quasi mortua ‥ jaceat Quaest. Salern. N 64A; sicut simia cum ludit ~enda sua oculis intuentium exponit T. Chobham Praed. 102.

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