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suspirare [CL] 1 to sigh, give a sigh. b ? to breathe one's last, expire. intimo ex corde graviter ~ans exclamavit ad Dominum ‥ Bede Hab. 1237B; suspirans graviter “sanus sum, sensibus” inquit / “redditus” Alcuin SS Ebor 415; ~antes nimium intima mente dolebant Asser Alf. 106; qui susspirabant gementes Osb. Clar. V. Ed. Conf. 22; ~abat tam egre ut ‥ ad racionem poneretur cur hoc Map NC II 16 f. 28; ~o, A. to syche WW.  b c789 cartula ‥ vestram denuntians ‥ infirmitatem, propemodum te in limine hujus vitae ~are Alcuin Ep. 55. 2 (trans.) to sigh over, express sorrow about. p1105 ~ando miserias et languores animae quos contraxi Ep. Anselm. (433) V 380; muliercule ‥ querelam auscultat, dampnum ~at W. Malm. GP II 75. 18; Angli minus Danorum ~abant imperium Ciren. II 175 (cf. W. Malm. GR II 181). 3 to express longing for, sigh for; b (w. dat. or w. ad or in); c (w. inf. or cl.). psalmista meliora ~ans orabat “de necessitatibus meis eripe me” [Psalm. xxiv 17] Bede Apoc. 151B; ~ant, concupiscunt, þenceaþ GlP 92; gaudeo quia ad Deum, quem ~averat transiit Turgot Marg. 1; quod plenitudini deest ~atur J. Ford Serm. 46. 5.  b in convalle lacrimarum ‥ in caelestem ~antes Hierusalem Bede Apoc. 152B; ‘~o’ verbum trahit nomen dativi casus ‥ ut ‘~amus patriae caelesti’ ‥ et praepositione addita, ‘~amus ad vitam immortalem’ Id. Orth. 51; Eadwardus cum ‥ ad majorem ~aret spiritualis vite profectum Osb. Clar. V. Ed. Conf. 11; mundo uti, Deo frui: ‥ ad necessitatem ‥ inniti illi, ad felicitatem vero ‥ ~are isti Ad. Scot OP 453D; quicumque in aliena ~abant [v. l. aspirabant] M. Par. Maj. I 145 (cf. G. Mon. V 3: quicumque in aliena anelabant).  c anhelando ~abat quatinus ‥ [aqua] ipsi ad potandum deferretur (Mir. Audoeni) Anal. Boll. LI 289; vitam suspirans scire scientem / omnia L. Durh. Dial. IV 319.

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