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reprimere [CL] 1 to press or beat down. oceani tumidas exhinc remeavit ad undas, / gurgitis et vasti circumflua terga repressit Frith. 1263. 2 to restrain or check the activity of (person), to restrain (person, esp. from some activity). b (refl.) to restrain oneself. 601 dum ‥ ejusdem mysterii amore rapiuntur, ~imendae ‥ non sunt (Libellus Resp.) Bede HE I 27 p. 56; asperitate leves reprimendo, docebat ineptos Ord. Vit. V 18 p. 438; ultio divina ‥ a nimiis cupiditatibus nostris nos ~imit Ib. VII 7 p. 184; [Jupiter] gigantes ~essos fulmine tenens sub pedibus Deorum Imag. 2.  b Buamundus ‥ indignatus se tamen ~essit Ord. Vit. IX 6 p. 496. 3 to check the motion of (weapon). b (w. vocem, linguam, or verba) to check or restrain (person's speech or voice); c (w. calamum). d (w. lacrimas, in quot. w. abstr. subj.). me crebris ‥ nefandus / insidiis agitabat ‥ / ‥ / sed facile infandi Christo duce tela repressi Bede CuthbV 732.  b non ~imit voces eorum qui regnum ‥ David in eo restaurandum ‥ concinunt Bede Mark 242B; hinc reprimas linguam nimium ‥ seditiosam Altercatio 122; a1080 cogor ‥ animi verba ~imere Anselm (Ep. 47) III 160; scilicet ‘os justi meditabitur’ inchoat, immo / percurrit labris compressis, voce repressa H. Avr. Hugh 999a p. 39.  c plura ‥ scribere possum: sed ~imo calamum Ord. Vit. V 3 p. 311.  d 1093 non ‥ celsitudo aut opulentia archiepiscopatus eas [lacrimas] ‥ valuerunt ‥ ~imere Anselm (Ep. 164) IV 37. 4 (w. abstr. obj.) to restrain, repress: a (action or activity, esp. mental activity); b (emotion, feeling, or expression thereof); c (quality of mind or character); d (other abstr.). a ut ‥ sacerdotale cor ‥ in semet ipso etiam suggestiones vitiorum ~imat Bede Tab. 467B; inconditos animi motus dissonosque cogitationum insolentium tumultus ‥ quos quicumque in se edomare ac ~imere dissimulat Id. Sam. 598B; ~essis praesumptionis suae cogitationibus Id. Luke 543B; 1109 quatenus ‥ consideretis pondus tanti mali ‥ et ‥ intentionem ejus ~imatis Anselm (Ep. 467) V 416; quod tanquam alumpnas proprie sanctitatis eas ~imere motus carnales et juvenum blandimenta matris industria docuisset V. Edm. Rich C 596; s1295 ut ‥ regis Anglie injuriosi conatus eo commodius ~imantur (Treuga) W. Guisb. 266 (= Bower XI 17, Plusc. VIII 20).  b superborum furore ~esso Bede Apoc. 190C; hac sententia multum ~essisti exultationem meam Anselm (Lib. Arb. 11) I 222; suggestioni ergo nec attendamus, delectationem mox ~imamus, consensum fortiter obruamus Simil. Anselmi 40; rex ‥ iram intra fauces ~essit W. Malm. GP I 49.  c istorum superbiam severa castigatione ~imens Alcuin Hag. 688B; exortus ‥ luctus aviditatem esurientium ~essit W. Malm. GR III 264; ut ‥ gentis indomite ~imeret audaciam Gir. TH III 50 p. 196; temeritatem ipsius, que nimis publica et notoria est ‥ instanti studio ~imatis P. Blois Ep. 120. 352B; gracia ligat et ~imit concupiscenciam repugnantem Bradw. CD 367C.  d si mica panis ponatur in vino fortissimo, vini acumen ~imitur et fortitudo et violentia removetur Quaest. Salern. N 14; 1258 ut dictorum rebellium nostrorum versucia adeo potenter ~imi valeat SelPlMan 60; 1460 quare ex naturali legis dictamine potestis et debetis vim vi violenter ac potenter ~imere ac repellere Paston Let. 611. 5 (med.) to subdue or repress (fever or inflammation). b to weaken the effect or potency of (substance or medicine, esp. by dilution or admixture), temper. quotque focos febris sacra represserit unda Bede CuthbV 600; unde Macer ‥: ‘defluvium capitis, si suco seminis hujus ungas ‥ caput, ~imi dicit Galienus’ Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 226; in minutis ergo calor qui ex habundantia sanguinis primo ~imebatur, subtracta aliquantulum humiditate, acuitur Quaest. Salern. B 39.  b scamonea ~imitur si cum ea admisceatur mastix ad tertiam Gilb. II 95v. 1; tuthie [et] antimo[nii] ~essorum Ib. III 141v. 1 (v. repressio 4).

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