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subigere [CL] 1 to bring (close) under. b to place under. s1224 cum a regis bellatoribus due testitudines, quas Gallice brutesches appellant ‥ ~acte fuissent, invaserunt castellum M. Par. Maj. III 86. b sapiens incude subactum / malleus in ferrum peditat Æthelwulf Abb. 280. 2 to drive or press down, (in quot., w. foot) to tread underfoot (also fig.). b (in gl.) to work (soil) by digging (with the snout). c to pound. me calce subigunt Hwætberht Aen. 6 (Terra) 2; gentes ‥ / barbaricas ‥ / straverat ac pedibus solo terrore subactas Wulf. Swith. I 819. b ~igo, wrotu GlC S 689. c pro potu potest dari ptisana si ~egerit, in qua decoquantur radices feniculi Gilb. I 46. 1. 3 to subdue by fighting, to subject; b (transf., of disease). ~acto communi hoste Gildas EB 110; occisus est et provincia graviore servitio ~acta Bede HE IV 14 p. 236; ~igerunt, domaverunt GlC S 597; ~actum, victum Ib. S 609; ~actus, inclinatus Ib. S 611; scita / quae posuit populis rector servanda subactis Alcuin SS Ebor 130; saepius hostiles subigens terrore phalangas Ib. 1275; 798 urbes ‥ Cenulfo rege abstulit et imperio Merciorum ~egit CS 291; gentes ‥ / barbaricas ‥ Christo donante subegit Wulf. Swith. I 818; ~actis, ofercumenon GlP 884; omnimodos quanta virtute subegerit hostes / Guthlaci robusta manus H. Avr. Guthl. proem. 1; quoties, a quibus et qualiter [Hibernia] ~acta sit et expugnata Gir. TH pref. p. 20. b puer mortali peste subactus Alcuin SS Ebor 1155. 4 to drive (to a particular course of action or condition), force, constrain. que te ‥ in hunc errorem causa ~egit? Adel. ED 5. 5 (conf. w. subire) to undergo. se profitens Christianum ‥ capitalem sententiam ~egit Eul. Hist. I 186.

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