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sibilare [CL] 1 to make a sibilant sound: a (of serpent or sim.) to hiss (also in fig. context). b (of person) to hiss, whistle; c (w. dat. of person summoned thereby). d (w. super & acc.) to hiss at, deride. e (trans.) to say (something) in a hissing or whispering manner, to hiss, whisper, murmur. f (of wind or breeze) to whisper. a serpentes ~ant ‥ venti flant vel tremunt vel sibilant Aldh. PR 131 p. 180; qui [sc. Lernaeus anguis] quondam fertur Herculem hac turba serpentium et ~antibus circumstetisse capitibus Lib. Monstr. III 1; tremant venenum sibilantis [gl.: wisligendre] Gorgonae GlP 431; rugit leo, ululat lupus, ~at chelydrus Gosc. Transl. Mild. 37 p. 208; coluber ‥ sibilis ~ans terribilibus T. Mon. Will. VI 15; incitans sibilus serpentum; / sed in vanum incitant, sibilant in ventum Poem S. Thom. 84; [Satan] scamarum fusilium scuto munitur; / segetem inde sibilando prosternit J. Howd. Cant. 161; [draco] erexit se in medio carceris et fortiter scibilabat Pass. Marg. 532; [fortuna] que ‥ ut draco ~ans clandestine maliciam machinatur Dictamen 357.  b si aerem trahendo ~em, audiri non potero? Adel. QN 22; aliis operi manuum ‥ insistentibus, ~are te super digitos suos Ad. Scot OP 486B; sibulat, hyssyt WW.  c rusticus haec retulit. rex contra sibilat illi; / quamvis haec timeat, velle tamen simulat G. Amiens Hast. 167.  d ut omnes qui noverant illorum prius potentiam ‥ ~arent super eos dicentes ‥ J. Furness Kentig. 29 p. 212.  e non ut parasitorum venerata vestrorum venena in aures ~ant ora Gildas EB 43; hii sane religionem esse ~ant, quicquid precedentia malorum magisteria potuerunt (Quad.) GAS 530; si ‥ murmuratis in choro, si serpentina consilia ~atis ad invicem ‥ non est hic psalmus ‥ decora ‥ laudatio P. Blois Ep. 242C.  f venti ‥ ~ant Aldh. PR 131 p. 180 (v. 1a supra); quare nunc sibilant flabra tam leniter? Walt. Wimb. Carm. 501. 2 (gram., p. ppl. as sb. f. sc. littera) sibilant. ~ate ‥ fauces distendunt, aspirate tumescere faciunt Ps.-Gros. Gram. 22; apud Grecos ‥ notantur ‥ ~ate ‥ per angulos ψ, ζ, ξ Ib. 25. 3 to make a melodious or soothing sound (also in fig. context). quis vestrum in hac turba ~ando aures delectare nunc prevalet fatigatas? Gir. IK II 6 p. 125; sibilator qui in tanta dulcedine ~at quod ‥ G. Roman. 413; sibilator, sc. diabolus, qui ~at tam dulciter ‥ quod ‥ Ib. 414; jocunde audiam ~antes in meis auribus dulcissimos sermones tuos Chaundler Apol. f. 17b. 4 (? w. play on Sibylla, perh. also w. sense of whispering or hissing involved in prophetic delivery) to proclaim as a sibyl, speak prophetically. quis enim falsum te coegit putare? quis ea que ‥ ventura conjectas immutabilia esse persuasit? an falleris eo quod Figulus [cf. Lucan Bell. Civ. I 639ff.] ~ans ‥ ? J. Sal. Pol. 458C.

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