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conscendere

conscendere [CL] , to ascend, mount, climb, go aboard (also fig): a (trans); b (p. ppl. s. act.); c (intr.). d to enter into, undertake. a culmina celsa valet humilis conscendere virgo Aldh. VirgV 2759; lectulum ~ens coepit in quietem membra laxare Bede HE III 27; praecepit ut naviculam ‥ ~isset Felix Guthl. 37; [diabolus] tectum dormitorii multa vi ~it G. Crispin Herl. 48; verbum Dei Deus est. si mentis vestre sedem ~erit, bona est igitur mens nec sine eo (Sermo) Osb. Bawdsey cxlviii; volucris ‥ nubium sublimia ~ens W. Cant. Mir. Thom. VI 147; scale thēologīe / ardua conscendit H. Avr. Hugh 81.  b navem conscensi ‥, transportantur in Angliam Grim Thom. 75.  c haec conscendunt per ethera / ab ortu solis sidera Carm. Aldh. 1. 79; c1100 omnes qui ad perfectionem religiosae vitae ~ere affectant Ham. S. Alb. 1456; in dextrum humerum concendit morbus T. Mon. Will. III 22; nec sic ad †artem [l. arcem] victorie plene ~erat Gir. GE II 10 p. 214.  d s1460 ad cognoscendum si [regi] placeret ~ere in tractatum pacis Reg. Whet. I 372.

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