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surdescere

surdescere [LL], surdere, to be or become deaf (also fig.). non ‥ auribus ‥ ad omnia fere preter antiqua ~escentibus ‥ laboro Andr. S. Vict. Comm. 273; ~eo, -des, unde ~esco Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 519; aures / surdescunt, languent lumina, visus hebet Neckam DS II 446; ~esco [gl.: devenir surd] (Garl. Unus) Teaching Latin II 168; bene canta que meretrix es; / nam si bursa sonet, nullus surdescet Ulixes Walt. Wimb. Scel. 85; 1526 judicii tui ‥ vim ‥ experietur ‥ quisquis non ‥ invide ~escit, dum castigationes ‥ tuas ‥ equis auribus accipit (R. Aldridge) Ep. Erasm. VI 1766.

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