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tepere [CL] 1 to have a small or moderate degree of heat, be warm, tepid; b (fig. or transf.). artus virgineos sic texit parma pudoris / ‥ / sed fax et fomes et dempto pruna vigore / nequicquam ardentes sopito torre tepebant Aldh. VirgV 2327; igne ~enti liquefactam B. V. Dunst. 30; sed nec sic algore ~ente in mortem anima fugiente diriguit W. Malm. GP I 17; si corpus, quia caluit, modo autem ~et, mutatur Pull. Sent. 681B; hanc domum incolit palponum concio / que verne tepuit fortune radio Walt. Wimb. Palpo 109.  b accende amorem ejus ~entem et redde ferventem Anselm (Or. 12) III 47; a1077 ne qua occasione amor ipse ab aliquo putetur ~ere, expedire puto ut aliquando schedulis, quasi scintillis ab invicem emicantibus, videatur fervere Ib. (Ep. 69) III 189; me sentiam a spirituali fervore ~ere Ib. (Ep. 230) IV 135; qui [Salomon] pigras mentes hominum votoque tepentes / his monet aptari formicis et similari R. Cant. Malch. app. 683 p. 168; sic, ubi vela tepent, remos fervere jubemus L. Durh. Dial. III 93; ab amore ~ens divino illa consulta se calere gaudebat V. Chris. Marky. 57. 2 to make lukewarm. non horror nivei tramitis obstitit, / non gressu tepuit aequoreum jecur / te Wulf. Poems 166.

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