transversare

transversare [CL] 1 to be or lie across or over from one side to another, to cross (also fig.). in omnibus his [nervis] sunt longitudinales et latitudinales et texentes i. ~antes Gilb. II 115v. 2; directe protenditur [canalis] campum ~ando et sepes Mon. Francisc. I 510; evangelicam sententiam totaliter ~ando Dictamen 359. 2 (leg.) to contradict formally, to deny at law. b (~are officium) to traverse, to deny the findings (or truth) of an inquest of office. 1293 non tenentur respondere de aliqua defalta nisi venissent per districtionem, licet acopati fuerunt et dampna estimata et etiam in defensione ~ata CourtR Hales 241.  b 1405 ad que quidem officia ‥ se coram nobis in cancellaria nostra optulerunt ~anda ‥ si officia predicta ad prosecucionem predictorum Reginaldi etc. imposterum ~ari contingant Cl 254 m. 3d..