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adamare

adamare [CL] , a to love (sexually), make love to. b to mate with. c to love (a thing). a 1220 in tantum locuta fuit cum eo et ita ~avit eum quod ipse duxit eam in uxorem CurR IX 66; filius ‥ regis ‥ puellam ~averat et ‥ eandem quam diu amaverat desponsavit O. Cheriton Fab. add. B 14; s1226 ob amorem regine ‥, quam carnaliter ~avit M. Par. Maj. III 116.  b hic [hircus] mulierem ‥ bestialiter ~abat Gir. TH II 23.  c s1386 [rex Armenie] plus pecuniam ~avit quam plebem Wals. HA II 151.

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