trutinare

trutinare [CL] 1 to weigh (with scales or sim.); b (transf. or in fig. context). 9‥ ~abat, heolrode awæg WW; s1248 pondus veteris monete pro pondere nove dabatur ~atum M. Par. Maj. V 18; to wey, pendere, librare ‥ ~are CathA.  b trochaici pedes ‥ quibus temporum lancibus ~antur? Aldh. PR 116; trutinat electos sed justae lance libellae Id. VirgV 734; 930 alta media infima justa invictae fortitudinis lance treutinata gubernat CS 669; 955 in principio ‥ Deus ‥ terram terrestribus ~avit tripudialiter tribuendo ita dicens “‥ tellus scabellum pedibus [est]” Ch. Burton 13; qui montes trutinat et celi culmina / libratur virginis ventrali trutina Walt. Wimb. Carm. 84; ventrali trucinatur / statera divinitas Id. Virgo 130; rex quia jus trutinat Garl. Tri. Eccl. 17. 2 to weigh up mentally, to ponder, examine, appraise. 825 ab omnibus illic in eodem synodo residentibus ~atum ac quaesitum fuerat quis cum justitia ‥ conservatus fuisset (Clovesho) CS 384; ecclesiasticos honores diu ante quam daret deliberabat, sive pro commodo sive pro ~ando merito W. Malm. GR IV 333; propositi longo trutinans examine metas Hanv. VIII 195; 1586 omnia limata et ~ata a vestra reverendissima paternitate velim antequam in lucem prodeant Scot. Grey Friars II 183.