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bellare

bellare [CL], ~ari , to fight. b (trans.) to fight against. c to wage (war). bellandi miseros stimulat quos vana cupido Aldh. Aen. 96. 2; ut multo plures aqua fugientes quam ~antes perderet ensis Bede HE III 24; ascendit montem rex bellaturus in hostem G. Amiens Hast. 373; Rodbertus ‥ contra patriam ~abat W. Malm. GR III 283; litibus alternis quando bellantur amantes, / crescit in hoc bello linguarum pax animorum Vinsauf PN 880; s1461 cum bonus est bellans et quem decet arma movere Reg. Whet. I 403.  b s1164 Henricus rex ‥ ad ~andum Resum usque ad P. pervenit Ann. Cambr. 49; s1212 ad ~andum regem Joannem Trevet 185; s1191 de ~ando Sarracenos ‥ promiserunt Meaux I 258.  c 1268 ut ‥ nos ‥ populum Christianum ad ~andum bellum suum exerceat ad salutem Conc. Syn. 782.

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