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amplecti

amplecti [CL], ~ere , to embrace. b to comprise. c (fig.) to welcome, cherish, adhere to. dum eam nefandus ille ~eretur [Eul. Hist. II 339: amplectaretur] G. Mon. X 3; hic [leo] fatuam quandam ‥ bestiali amore ~i solebat Gir. TH II 24.  b ‘crepuerunt, tonuerunt’ ‥ non epitritum primum sed ionicum minorem ~untur Aldh. PR 137.  c martiris amplexus felix oracula puber Aldh. VirgV 1397; studium tuae sinceritatis ~or Bede HE pref.; ut merito a majoribus ‥ amaretur, veneraretur, ~eretur Ib. V 19; si [hoc opus] cum supercilio ~unt Æthelw. IV 2; s1172 [Hibernienses] episcopi ‥ circa matrimonium ‥ que Anglia ‥ observat se firmiter amplexuros ‥ promittunt Diceto YH 351; fide certissima est ~endum Gir. TH II 19; s1315 cum [rex] ‥ solatium in remigando infra diversos lacus amplexisset Flor. Hist. III 173.

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