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tumere [CL] 1 to swell (up), to bulge or be distended; b (as result of disease or injury); c (transf.). d (of sea) to swell, run high (also in fig. context). qui serpentes corsia nuncupantur ‥ et ab eis percussus cito moritur ~ens Lib. Monstr. III 6; ~entibus ‥ abbatisse multarumque uteribus Map NC V 3 f. 60v; quum in convivio deorum concinuisset [Minerva], ejusque ~entes buccas dii omnes irrisissent Alb. Lond. DG 10. 7; equari vult rana bovi, ~et ergo Walt. Angl. Fab. 39. 1.  b genu ~ente, adstrictis nervis claudicans V. Cuthb. I 4.  c tumulus et ~ens tellus et mons brevis et sepulcrum aeque vocatur Bede Orth. 55.  d ~entes oceani gurgites Aldh. VirgP 4; mystice ‥ mare turbida et ~entia saeculi hujus volumina significat Bede Hom. II 2. 111A; egressus de navi cepit super ~entes fluctus quasi super solidum ire Hon. Spec. Eccl. 970D; flatus ventorum ‥ maris undas ~entes Ad. Scot TGC 801C; aqua latitudine domus in litore ~ens planissimo ‥ non accessit ad eum set surgebat quasi paries (Molua 19) VSH II 211. 2 to swell with arrogance, presumption, passion, or sim.; b (w. de or abl.). c (of passion, emotion, or sim.) to swell. dum Mercica regna ~erent Frith. 553; conscientiam alti sanguinis spirans, in maritum ~ebat W. Malm. GR II 165; dejectus animum ‥ in regem ~uit Ib. V403; diu productis inimicitiis cum uterque grossum ~eret Ib. V 405; videbat quomodo ~ebat et superbiebat [diabolus] quod reges hujus mundi adorabant eum Ailr. Serm. 1. 23. 213D; nec est nunc tempore gracie corpus Christi, quod est ecclesia, ~ens de suarum virium presumpcione Gros. Cess. Leg. I 10. 18; enorguiler, superbire, ~ere Gl. AN Ox. f. 154v.  b gloriam de qua ~et Bede Luke 531B; cave ne de his quae tua non sunt ‥ ~eas Anselm Misc. 301; nec ille pro numero militum, quo ~ebat, moram pugne fecit W. Malm. GR III 233.  c si ~entis arrogantiae spiculo sauciatur Aldh. VirgP 16; 798 ~entem furorem mitigans ‥ desidem animum erigens Alcuin Ep. 149. 3 (w. altum or sim., opp. to humi repere) to be grand or high. is, adhuc laicus, ejusque condicionis ut nec humi reperet nec altum quid ~eret W. Malm. Mir. Mariae 170; mediocri parentela ‥ que nec humi reperet nec altum quid ~eret Id. GR III 262; in dictando ita stylum temperavi meum ut nec humi repat nec ~eat in altum J. Furness Walth. prol. 5 (cf. Hor. Epist. II 1. 251).

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