rigere

1 rigere v. 1 rigare

2 rigere [CL] 1 to be stiff, rigid, unyielding. b to be fixed, unmoving. c to freeze, be rigid, be unable to function (as a result of fear or tiredness or at moment of death). d (fig.) to be unmoved. virgae, quae prius nodosa duritia ~ebant [gl.: durescebant], pluma molliores ‥ effectae sunt Aldh. VirgP 35 p. 279; cuncti pariter velut aenea signa rigebant Id. VirgV 1527; ~ens, stið GlP 384; indutus clamidem vel auro ~entem W. Malm. GR I 49; ala vigens [accipitris] et penna rigens dorsumque relucens L. Durh. Dial. II 161; meatus sanguinis quos venarum rigor obcluserat reserantur, ~antur ossa, carnes marcide recalescunt Ailr. Ed. Conf. 755A.  b portenta ‥ diabolica ‥ intra vel extra deserta moenia ‥ ~entia torvis vultibus Gildas EB 4; nervorum tremor ~uit, fluida tabes exaruit et ‥ totus convaluit W. Malm. GP V 274; aura cadit, languent vela, carina riget L. Durh. Dial. III 88.  c corpore / mortis rigente torpore (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 3. 14; vox ab aere lapsa late insonuit ‥ . ~entibus ceteris ‥ W. Malm. GR II 192; sed nunc ora rigent, nunc vox, nunc vita recedunt H. Hunt. HA VIII 33; omnibus ‥ que mortem precedere solent signis in eo concurrentibus, ~entibus totius corporis membris Mir. Fridesw. 26; rigent brachia lassa cedencium Walt. Wimb. Carm. 542.  d ipsum quoque Riganum in superbia ~entem ‥ projecit in flumen V. II Off. 4; si spinis cor compunxeris, / compassionem largiens, / jure felicem feceris, / spine qua sic rigueris / participem me faciens J. Howd. Cyth. 94. 11. 2 to be stiff or hard w. cold, to be freezing: a (of water or ground); b (transf. of weather). c (of person) to be stiff w. cold; d (fig.). a glaciali frigore ~enti insulae Gildas EB 8; 724 frigore ‥ ~entes terras ‥ reliquerunt (Dan. Wint.) Ep. Bonif. 23; cum tota terra glaciali frigore concreta ~eret Osb. V. Elph. 127; ille dabat pavidas hiberno sidere naves / iste docebat humi cuncta rigere gelu L. Durh. Dial. III 70; in fluvio ‥ brumali glacie sub divo ~ente Gir. GE II 10 p. 215.  b ~ente asperie brumali tempore R. Cold. Godr. 74.  c nunc hiemali frigore ~ens aliis occupationibus vacabo Ord. Vit. IV 19 p. 298; ut caro tota ‥ pre frigore nimio tremeret et ~eret Gir. GE II 10 p. 214.  d frigora nivis corda sunt reproborum, perfidiae suae torpore ~entia Bede Prov. 1035B; quando exteriora gelido quodam continentie spiritu ~ent, et interiora rigantur profluis gaudiis G. Hoyland Serm. 207A. 3 to be stiffly erect, stand up sharply or unyieldingly: a (of hair); b (of finger nail). a gelidus ‥ membra pavor perserpit, ~ent comae Osb. V. Dunst. 4; rigens ‥ / ‥ barba P. Blois Carm. 13. 4. 20.  b sulcant ungue rigente genas Garl. Tri. Eccl. 81. 4 (in gl.) to wither, shrivel up. ~entia, forclingendu GlC R 192. 5 (tr.) to stiffen (in quot. fig.). virgo ‥ continentium ‥ forma, quod ad suscepti rigorem propositi ac si virga de radice Jesse suo eos ~et et informet exemplo J. Ford Serm. 59. 3.