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tenuare [CL] 1 to make thin or slender (also fig.). b to cause (body) to become thin through lack of food, emaciate. c to reduce swelling in. sicut autem uter frigore glaciali contrahitur, sic carnis nostrae incentiva vitiorum afflictione poenitentiae ~antur, ut justificationum Domini non obliviscantur Alcuin Exeg. 608C; dum marsupium tenuatur Walt. Wimb. Scel. 28; ~are, i. amenuser Teaching Latin II 8. b cum autem ille recesserit, paulatim emarcescere et subtracto cibo ~ari, pallere, languescere, et interitum sequi omnium que prius vigebant Gros. Gal. 116. c germinis Ydrei penitus tenuata cicatrix Frith. 1295. 2 to make less dense, rarefy; b (transf.). donec in auroram nox tenuata perit L. Durh. Dial. III 114; aer in flammam, tellus tenuatur in undam Gir. Symb. II 1 p. 343. b ~ando prudenter et eludendo quod dixerat Lucian Chester 68. 3 to reduce, diminish, weaken (non-material thing). robur ecclesie, guerrarum hujusmodi accione diutissime ~atum Fortescue NLN I 1.

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