purpurare

purpurare [CL as p. ppl. only] 1 to make dark red or crimson; b (w. ref. to blood); c (fig.); d (p. ppl. as adj.) dark red or crimson (in quot. w. ref. to flower). purpurat ecce rosas et vestit lilia lisso, / lilia virgo, rosas martir Nig. Poems f. 3ra. b per medium mare proprio sanguine ~atum Theod. Laterc. 21; Abel qui ‥ primus claro terram ~avit martirio H. Los. Serm. 288; pro hac dimicavit ~ata martyrum multitudo Mir. Fridesw. prol. 2; s1071 unde adhuc Scocia ‥ primitivo nobilium Anglorum sanguine ~atur M. Par. Min. I 16; stragemque cruentam / condensat, campum purpurat imbre rubro Garl. Tri. Eccl. 61; s304 Britanniam ‥ sanguine ~avit Flor. Hist. I 174; Manasses ‥ plateas Jerusalem sanguine prophetarum ~avit Eul. Hist. I 53. c ave [Jhesu] presul et hostia / que purpurat altaria / crucis ut rose floribus J. Howd. Cyth. 76. 2. d adolescentes velut quidam flores verni purpurati et rosuli H. Bos. Thom. III 15. 2 to give a rich colour to; b (transf., w. ref. to rhetorical style). c (in fig. context). [scala] vernis ‥ sertis ad delicias ~ata Gir. Symb. 24. 272. b vestes munde linguam tingunt, / os colorant, verba pingunt, / et loquelam purpurant Walt. Wimb. Van. 31. c hoc eterni viroris vernale pratum virtutum flores ~are non desinunt Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 77. 3 to clothe in purple (assoc. w. purpuratus), i. e. to bestow high rank on (in quot of bishop). modo nullus purpuratur, / nisi dicat et loquatur / principi placencia Walt. Wimb. Van. 115. 4 (p. ppl.): a (as adj.) dressed in purple (esp. as symbol of power or status). b (as sb. m.) one dressed in purple. a a797 nullum gladium timentes, quanto magis nec linguas vaniloquas, que sibi cum divite ~ato flammas incendere probantur Alcuin Ep. 89; cum universa chorea iterum candidata et ~ata Gosc. Transl. Aug. 19D; Romanus pontifex ‥ non modo ~atus sed deauratus incedit J. Sal. Pol. 624A; dat odorem domino / purpurato thure P. Blois Carm. 22. 4. 36; ~ata incedit parentela pontificum Id. Ep. 60. 178D; dives delicatus et ~atus sepultus est in inferno, Lazarus ulceribus plenus et fame cruciatus in sinum Abrahe transportatus est (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 64. b quurris [l. curulis] sella, in qua ~ati sedent GlC Q 79; ad eum ~ati sermo dirigitur W. Malm. GP I 6.

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