quadrupedare

quadrupedare [CL as pr. ppl.] , to move like or be characteristic of a galloping horse; b (pr. ppl. as adj.);; c (pr. ppl. as sb. m.). abbrevio, suppedito, quadripedo: Vergilius ‘quadripedante putrem cursu quatit ungula campum’ Aldh. PR 133; velox agmen equorum / qui trepidi fugiunt mox quadripedante meatu Aldh. Aen. 99 (Camellus) 6. b multimodas ferarum naturas quadripedante [gl.: i. veloci, fyþerscite] cursu per orbem lustrantes Aldh. VirgP 21. c tanta fuit peditum, tam barbara vis equitantum, / innumerabilium concursus quadrupedantum W. Malm. GR II 135; ~antium audito fremitu Id. Wulfst II 12 p. 35.

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