temnere

temnere [CL], to scorn, despise, reject, avoid. b not to show favour to (person). c (w. inf.) to refuse, not to deign (to). torrentum furias, Aquilones temnite saevos Bede CuthbV 742; septdecimis martur Cyriacus tartara tempsit Kal. M. A. 75; humanam laudem, vanum et tempsere favorem Wulf. Brev. 611; [precaria] invidis aemulorum abdicamentis ~pnuntur B. V. Dunst. 1; ut cujus monita ~pneret acriter agnosceret Ib. 7; s653 ~nebat ‥ credentes et male viventes H. Hunt. HA III 41. b temnere personas et jus servare solemus Aldh. Aen. 23 (Trutina) 3. c auscultare pii tempsit legata ierarchi Wulf. Swith. I 161.

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