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truncare [CL] 1 to mutilate by chopping or lopping (w. abl. of part removed), (esp. capite ~are) to behead. b (pedes ~are) to hamble (dog), to cut off balls of (dog's) feet to render them unfit for hunting. c to geld (horse). d to mutilate (text) by cutting or abbreviation. e (transf.) to deprive (of). capite ~atus est Bede Luke 312B; ~atus, decollatus GlC T 281; ut nullus episcopus vel abbas ‥ hominem ~andum membris vel occidendum judicet W. Malm. GP I 42; in urbe Winthonia capite ~atus J. Furness Walth. 1; etiamsi nare et auribus ~atus esset P. Blois Ep. 23. 84C; martyres Christi ‥ qui capite pro ipso ~ati ‥ melius quam vivi predicant Gir. TH I 21; Norwagienses ubique ~antur Ib. III 41; virtus gradiendi gressibili inest actione separata. hoc‥ patet in pueris et ~atis et infirmis forte Kilwardby OS 185. b pedes latrantium ~abuntur Ord. Vit. XII 47 p. 490 (= G. Mon. VII 3); 1190 concedimus ‥ ut non ~entur pedes canum dominiorum suorum ubicunque sint in forestis CalCh IV 265. c 1331 de Roberto de Trop' pro j equo ~ato, iij d. KR Ac 131/25 m. 4d.; 1337 de Jak Laundere pro ij equis trunc' captis ibidem, ix d. Ib. 131/27 m. 6d.. d doctrinam Augustini pervertunt, ~atas ejus auctoritates ad proprium sensum non sine sancti injuria convertentes R. Marston QD 256; auctoritates ‥ hic plene non posui, sed ad loca ubi sunt vos remisi, ut non ~atas sed integras plenius videatis et ne nimis epistulam dilatarem Lutterell Visio Beat. f. 95; glossa, quam isti pervertunt et ~ant, dicit ‥ Ockham Dial. 766. e in Wlferium Pende filium paternam ultus injuriam, plurima illum parte regni ~avit W. Malm. GR I 19. 2 to shorten by cutting off the extremities, truncate, (also p. ppl. as adj.) truncated; b (her.). bulbus est omnis ~ata vel tunicata Alph. 25; crux truncata dicitur qui fit de duobus arborum ramis ~atis Upton 218. b solet hec crux aliquando ~ari ‥ et sic debet talis crux discerni. portat unam crucem ~atam Bad. Aur. 125; crux ~ata Upton 218 (v. 2a supra). 3 to lop or chop down (tree), to chop (timber or log); b (transf., in lineage). c1078 de materia mea ~ata Regesta 67; cedrus eximia [sc. Christus] mucrone truncatur J. Howd. Cant. 340; arbusta ~avit Thorne 2036. b ~atus fuit stipes usque ad tempus regis Henrici secundi Feudal Man. 136. 4 to chop or cut off (esp. part of body). ~ata, tocorfene GlP 894; crucifixum mordicus apprehendit, brachia illi corrosit, crura illi pene trunculaverat [cf. W. Malm. GR IV 333: ~averit] R. Niger Chr. II 163; quas Perseus devicit ~ato capite majoris Natura Deorum 4; linguam ejus forcipe extractam Tereus ~avit Ib. 82; ipsis dentibus ~ant testes [sc. castores] Bart. Angl. V 48. 5 (mus.) to break up (melody) with rests (w. ref. to hocket). discantus alius ‥ prolatus, alius ~atus, qui hoketus dicitur, alius copulatus, qui copula dicitur Hauboys 184.

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