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revellere [CL] 1 to tear loose, to tear or pull out or away (from); b (from human body). c to tear up (what is embedded or rooted in the ground), (signa ~ere) to strike camp. monstra quae ab ipsis per plurimos terrae angulos eradicata funditus et subversa legimus et nunc revulsa litoribus prona torquentur ad undas Lib. Monstr. I prol..  b digitos decies senos in corpore gesto; / ex quibus ecce quater denis de carne revulsis Aldh. Aen. 90 (Puerpera geminos enixa) 3; revulsit, ofacearf GlP 293.  c qui pugnae immemores, armis telisque relictis, / tuta fugae petiere loca et sua signa revellunt Alcuin SS Ebor 545. 2 to tear up or apart, (fig.) to destroy. ~it, dissolvit GlC R 161; impatiens sanctam scindi se presule normam, / arvaque commissis monachis collata revelli Frith. 1058; priscas nolite revellere cartas Ib. 1179; huic, qui priscorum mores legesque revelli / praecepit, libitum pro ratione fuit J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 1301. 3 to tear open. jussit ~i sepulchrum pretiosa ibidem munera conditurus Bede HE I 18 p. 36. 4 to tear (from a place), remove forcibly. ~it, a loco removit GlC R 123; mutos expello, vulgus laicale revello Garl. Mor. Scol. 556.

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