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virere [CL] 1 (of plant or its parts) to show green growth, be green. b (pr. ppl. as sb. n.) green vegetable or herb, green. c (of place) to be green with foliage or herbage, be verdant. ut folia ‥ arborum que ~ent in estate, in hieme arescunt Ailr. Serm. 2. 32. 270A; frondes hedere ejus [sc. Dionysi] sacris interesse meruerunt ‥ quod semper juveni deo semper ~entia conveniant Alb. Lond. DG 12. 4; s1395 plurima ‥ germinancia tunc †valiter [MS: universaliter] ~encia ‥ combusta sunt Chr. Kirkstall 129. b dum ‥ quondam ‥ / sederat ad mensam, tum forte virentia desunt Mir. Nin. 190; hodie sulcis plantata virentia fixi / nec ea producunt ‥ rura / roscida Ib. 196; 1498 eo quod [herbagium] reservatur ‥ pro salvatione germinis et ~encie in eodem crescent hoc anno (Ac. Forest) MS Durh. Univ. CCB B/83/6. c illa ~ens patria ‥ quae ‥ floribus vernat Bede Tab. 415B; ut prata ~entia florens Greg. Eli. Æthelthryth prol. 28; terre ~ere et flores ‥ producere incipiant Alb. Lond. DG 8. 9. 2 to be in a vigorous condition, thrive, flourish. ~entem mundi prosperitatem ‥ evademus R. Cold. Godr. 333; anime ‥ nostre ‥ alacres sunt ‥ a pueritia usque ad ~entem senectutem Alb. Lond. DG 6. 7; patientia duris / gaudet ‥ / conculcata viret Neckam DS V 95; Virgilii miranda viret sententia Garl. Tri. Eccl. 125. 3 to have the colour of fresh foliage or herbage, be green. rubent aliae [margaritae], aliae ~ent Gosc. Aug. Maj. 51D; rubet in origano stipes, viret in calamento SB 32.

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