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1 titillare [CL] 1 to touch lightly, tickle. accedens ‥ hec molli temeraria tactu / presumit juvenis quasi titillare lacertum H. Avr. Hugh 247. 2 to stimulate pleasurably, titillate. quique [sc. Hilarion] titillantis sprevit primordia luxus Aldh. VirgV 805; sed caro titillat, mens ante pudica vacillat R. Cant. Malch. III 240; humana temptatio est de cibo, potu, somno, et ceteris ~ari Rob. Bridl. Dial. 92; mentes feminee penitus titulantur in istis [sc. ornamentis] D. Bec. 2247; hoc tempus titillat aves Vinsauf PN 552 (recte 557); sunt etenim monachi, possessio quos titulavit Gower VC IV 21; ejus animum mentemque ‥ regis Henrici ~abat memoria Mir. Hen. VI I 15. 3 (intr.) to totter or waver. 931 totillantis saeculi piacula CS 677; 961 (12c) ~antis seculi piacula Ch. Bath 15; 995 (13c) vacillantis status cosmi ‥ ita ‥ roboratur ne ~ando enerviter pessumdari ‥ videatur Ch. Abingd. 126; ~are, titubare vel commovere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 593; titubo ‥ inde ‥ ~o, -as, i. titubare Ib. 588.
2 titillare v. titulare

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