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texere [CL] 1 to weave (cloth, also transf. and fig.); b (of spider or silk-worm); c (w. ref. to bodily tissue). d (pr. ppl. as sb.) weaver (also w. ref. to Cathar heretics, cf. textor). e (p. ppl. as sb. n.) piece of woven fabric, (in quot.) band of rich cloth (cf. AN tissue). alii dicunt funem triplicem vel quod subtus ~itur, non sursum, ut nos telam ~imus Comm. Cant. I 100; virgines ‥ ~endis subtilioribus indumentis operam dant Bede HE IV 23 p. 265; quasi ad ~endum justitiae ‥ indumentum Id. Sam. 612C; telam ‥ oppositis lanceole jactibus et alternis calamistre cominus ictibus ~ere Gir. IK I 2 p. 33; telam falsitatis vir ille, quam avide nimis dictus abbas ~uerat, artificiose detexuit Id. Spec. III 11; 1264 tixuit pannum fullibilem contra libertatem gilde Rec. Leic. I 104; 1265 textores qui volunt tixere in Leycestria bene possunt tixere tam per noctem quam per diem Ib. I 105; 1298 in eadem [lana] tixanda Rec. Elton 83.  b nec crocea Seres texunt lanugine vermes Aldh. Aen. 33 (Lorica) 4; tela aranearum studiose ~itur, flatu venti dissipatur Alex. Bath Mor. I 61 p. 137; aranea ‥ de suis visceribus telam ~it et ~endo tabescit P. Blois Ep. 16. 60B; tela ‥ aranee subtilis est, in qua etiam subtiliter ~enda se vermis eviscerat Gir. GE II 37 p. 356.  c villorum ex quibus vasa naturalia ~untur sicut stomachus, intestina etc. Ps.-Ric. Anat. 14.  d textrina ‥ i. locus ~entium Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 584; s1166 Henricus rex tenuit concilium apud Oxonefordiam in quo damnata est heresis ~entium Ann. Worc. 381.  e ~tum i. semicinctorium, a seynt WW; hoc ~tum, a saynt of sylk Ib.. 2 to form (basket, crown, or sim.) by plaiting or entwining (also in fig. context). libellum quem ‥ conponi praecepisti, simplici verborum vimine ~tum ‥ institui Felix Guthl. prol. p. 60; rex ‥ / spinas portat irrisoris, / quas in orbem texuit / turbe manus durioris J. Howd. Sal. 23. 9. 3 to construct, compose, arrange; b (literary composition or sim.). quis ‥ profetarum ‥ manifestius ‥ oraculorum seriem ~uisse [gl.: wefan] dinoscitur Aldh. VirgP 21; 1166 poterit quis ‥ ~ere dolos in animam suam J. Sal. Ep. 193 (187) p. 242; texendis vox egra sonis J. Exon. BT IV 140; ut ‥ rei geste in archidiaconi absentia series hic ~atur Gir. JS V p. 298; Matheus in exordio evangelii sui generacionem Christi promisit se ~urum Fortescue NLN II 11.  b Sedulius ‥ primum versum decascemum ~uit Aldh. Met. 10 p. 85; istos [versus] ~uit Oswoldus, qui est nescius artis Osw. Vers. 9; heroico metro vitam illius ~i precepit W. Malm. GP I 15; “per Deum” inquit “Deique matrem” (hoc enim in usum jurandi ~erat [diabolus]) Ciren. II 216.

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