retegere

retegere [CL] 1 uncover, disclose, unclothe, unveil (part of the body). b to uncover, draw (weapon). c to uncover, open (book). d to take off (clothing). e (fig.) to remove (covering). f (in gl.). jugulos retectos, nudata, abarude GlP 321; plecteret hunc gladio tortor, cervice retecto Wulf. Swith. II 313; retecto capite novam ostentat calvitiem Gosc. Transl. Mild. 21 p. 185; antistes, obrelatam fatiem pusioli cum retexisset ut exsequeretur offitium, anima privatam advertit W. Malm. GP III 100; que superfuerant membra retexit infantis J. Sal. Pol. 424.  b plecteret hunc gladii tortor mucrone retecti Wulf. Swith. II 541; dixit et, ense retecto, / tendit in hostiles feriendo forte phalanges V. Neot. A 16.  c magni frater erat Karoli, bene si modo querat / chronica qui retegit et sua gesta legit Garl. Tri. Eccl. 90.  d retecto vestimento quantis esset verberibus laceratus ostendit Bede HE II 6 p. 93.  e retecto cortice litterae ‥ in medulla sensus spiritualis invenire Bede Ezra 808; retectum, discoopertum, unwrigene GlP 66.  f intimat, insinuat, enucleat, atque revelat, / insignat, retegit; edisserit, atque retexit Garl. Syn. 1586D. 2 to uncover, explain (meaning); b (w. de & abl.). c to disclose, reveal (secret, hidden fact or sense). rex compellatur, sua vita sibi reseratur; / Anselmus retegit quos excessus agit, egit, / quo populum, clerum vexet discrimine rerum V. Anselmi Epit. 54; haec cum dixisset, nocturne visionis cunctis audientibus retexit oraculum Ailr. Gen. Regum 355.  b arteque de simili post pascua rura retexi: Virgillius Vers. S. Alb. Libr. 220.  c scilicet hunc aquile pellit trans aethera pennis / divinam retegens naturam hominum rationi Alcuin Carm. 71. 1. 19; rem retegi timeo Babio 7; mistica discipulis grato sermone retexit Ord. Vit. V 18 p. 438; fontes eterna flamma cremabit / occultos actus retegens (Vers. Sibyllae) P. Blois Perf. Jud. 870B.