rubere

rubere [CL], to be red, to glow with a reddish colour, (also pr. ppl. as adj.) coloured or tinged with red; b (w. ref. to blood); c (w. ref. to inflammation of skin); d (of gem); e (of plant or fruit, also in fig. context w. ref. to modesty); f (w. ref. to red-hot metal); g (also fig., w. ref. to martyrdom); h (impers., w. ref. to colour of sky). aquas in alma transtulit / vini rubentis pocula Bede Hymn. 11. 10. 4; habet [Pan] ‥ cornua ad radiorum solis et lune similitudinem. ~et ejus facies ad etheris imitationem Alb. Lond. DG 8. 2. b Piatus martyr victorque Georgius ‥ / qui pro pace Dei vicerunt proelia mundi, / et meruere sacrum, rore rubente, polum Alcuin Carm. 89. 15. 4; ~ebunt sanguine Saxonum facies G. Mon. VIII 1; cerebrum candens et sanguis ~ens W. Fitzst. Thom. 143. c exsiliens lasciva sacro de gurgite gutta / lumina respersit sancti, vultumque ‥ rubentem Bede CuthbV 956; ex morbo adhuc recenti tumebant ‥ atque ~ebant gene pacientis V. Chris. Marky. 48. d formosior ~entis [gl.: splendentis, i. micantis, hiwfæstre reades] gemmae pulchritudo Aldh. VirgP 9; topatius ‥ / nitore rubet chriseo / et aspectu ethereo Frith. Cives 10. 3; conspeximus arcam / ‥ / argento albentem, gemmisque auroque rubentem Wulf. Swith. II 44. e per morum cujus colore sanguineo fructus et virgulta ~ent Bede Luke 540; rosa purpureo vernans rubet undique flore Wulf. Swith. II 946; pudicitia et verecundia, lilium candens et rosa ~ens Bald. Cant. Serm. 13. 17. 471B; crocum ‥ rubentem / ‥ et ferrugineos iacinctos J. Sal. Pol. 620B; queritur quare rosa ~et Quaest. Salern. B 253; ~et in origano stipes, viret in calamento SB 32. f ut ‥ / portaret nudaque manu carbone rubentem / ignitum calibem Wulf. Swith. II 310. g in quo albescit castitas, / ‥ rubet quoque martirium Frith. Cives 6. 6; in ejus collo, ob signum martyrii, ~et una tenuissima riga [v. l. ruga] in modum fili coccinei Abbo Edm. 14. h si mane ~et venturos indicat imbres Quaest. Salern. N 24; si ~et mane erit pluvia R. Orford Sciendum 43.

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