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torpere [CL] 1 to be numb or paralysed. linea ‥ debet stringere sacerdotis ‥ genua ne ab orationis instantia ~eant Bede Tab. 480D; quo frigore ~ens ad horam ‥ Petrus ‥ prunis calefieri cupiebat Id. Luke 606D; pes molem corporis non erexit, ~ebant brachia J. Sal. Pol. 625C. 2 to be sluggish or lethargic, (also) to be inactive or slothful. b (w. inf.) to be slow or loath (to). c (of faculty, feeling, or sim.) to be dull or inert. d (of inanim. thing) to be slow or motionless. qui ~etis potius quam sedetis legitime in sacerdotali sede Gildas EB 73; aut somno ~ent inerti aut ad peccata vigilant Bede HE IV 23; nemo in hujus vite itinere ~eat H. Los. Serm. 134; cum gentilitas ~ebat in idololatria, in cultu Dei vigebat Judea Pull. Sent. 977B; vocat ‥ philosophia ‥ ~entes ‘asinos’ Bern. Comm. Aen. 62.  b c1231 istud peccatum [sc. accidiam] committunt homines quando ~ent venire ad ecclesiam Conc. Syn. 217; electi ‥ ea que ad Deum pertinent vel loqui vel agere vel meditari non ~ent Rolle IA 149.  c ~ens [gl.: piger] nostrae mediocritatis ingenium Aldh. VirgP 60; quae vel videndo vel audiendo, licet intellectu ~enti, ab ipso didiceram B. V. Dunst. 1; 1170 elongantur ‥ a sanctuario qui vacuam et ~entem innocentiam ducunt P. Blois Ep. 50; sic vini copia voto respondeat / ut desiderii sitis non torpeat Walt. Wimb. Carm. 170.  d ~ente vento ‥ usi fluxus beneficio et remorum tractibus ‥ litora Calisii carpebamus G. Hen. V 23.

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