relidere

relidere [CL] 1 to drive, turn, send something back in the direction from which it comes (also fig.); b (weapon or sim.). c to repulse (enemy attack). dum vado, relidor; / dum propero, reprimor; dumque resurgo, ruo L. Durh. Dial. III 3; unde hujusmodi vipere emulatione in ipsius quem accendit ignis excutiendo ~emus exustionem R. Cold. Osw. pref. p. 327; mundana philosophia ‥ que modum sue possibilitatis ignorans, supra se ausa est attemptare, ad que, in se relisa, nullatenus potuit pertingere Bald. Cant. Serm. 18. 14. 454; anima vero ‥ Deum in sua natura nititur contemplari, sed a luce spirituali relisa suum non valet explere conatum Edmund Spec. Relig. 29; in facie nox furva sedet tenebreque relidunt / palpantem Garl. Epith. II 49; inter se resonant ictus, sonus astra relidit / aurea, conclamor martis in aure tonat Id. Tri. Eccl. 86; velut cum sol inspicitur / visus luce reliditur J. Howd. Cyth. 8. 2.  b nec mirum vati fragilem cessisse caminum / igniferis Satanae qui spicula torta pharetris / aetherio suerat umbone relidere Christo Bede CuthbV 339; indutus quidem erat spirituali lorica fidei qua diabolica tela relisit R. Cold. Godr. 81; spina nostra justa reliditur / pro injustis pungitur J. Howd. Ph. 152; vastatoris mucro reliditur Ib. 1003.  c qui tamen intrepidus hostilia castra relisit Alcuin SS Ebor 1330; jactis ‥ missilibus et lapidibus hostes relisit Ord. Vit. VIII 12 p. 334; incursus hostium magnanimiter excipiens, et potenter ~ens J. Hex. HR Cont. 311; agmina qui sternunt qui vastant rura, relidant / sic Charras, Memphim Niliacosque duces Garl. Tri. Eccl. 61; qui finxere fugam conversa fronte relidunt / hostes Ib. 81. 2 to strike hard against, do harm to. nil faciunt lapides, cerebrum jam fuste relidam Walt. Angl. Fab. app. 8. 23 (ed. Hervieux 377); faba / desiccat flegma, stomachum luramque relidit D. Bec. 2705; tercius occidit et denus ora relidit Miss. Westm. ix; se Saul occidit proprio dum corde relidit Vers. Peterb. Psalter 47; corpus alit faba; stringit cum cortice ventrem, / desiccat fleuma, stomachum lumenque relidit (Modus Cenandi) EETS XXXII ii 48. 3 to remove, send away, reject. balsama Galfridi censent mala, digna relidi Garl. Mor. Scol. 365; alas dum calide sunt alitis arte relide Ib. 412.