ramificare

ramificare [ML < CL ramus+-ficare] 1 to cause to spread in the manner of branches, to ramify (in quot. pass.). b to spread into divisions or categories. basilica dirigitur a pelliculis velantibus costas, et ~atur ad assellas, unde nuncupatur vena assellaris Gilb. IV 193. 1; nervi ‥ parciuntur et ~antur in membris Ps.-Ric. Anat. 5.  b hec ‥ duo genera philosophantium ‥ ~ata sunt per multas sectas et varios successores Bacon Maj. III 63; hec potentia que minime de unitate habet ideo ~atur in diversa secundum speciem Bacon VII 134. 2 (intr.) to branch, put forth branches (in quot. in fig. context or fig.). 1421 ut ipse in vitali ligno theologice facultatis decenter jam ~ans peramplius frondeat EpAcOx 3; congaudeat vestra ornatissima majestas ac regalis dignitas, prolifico germine ~et et accrescat Regim. Princ. 168.