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desaevire

desaevire [CL] 1 to rage, vent fury: a (of person or beast, or unspec.); b (of abstr.). a bestia delituit, quae desaevire solebat Aldh. VirgV 554; 9‥ ~iet, grimsaþ WW; 1171 satus ‥ erit eis regem ‥ sustinere, ut in vos valeant liberius ~ire D. Lond. Ep. 11; [comes] in male meritos juris rigore ~iens Gir. TH III 50; Id. GE I 34 (v. desperabiliter).  b concupiscentia contra nos ~it Bede Sam. 595; pestilentiae lues ‥ acerba clade diutius longe lateque ~iens Id. HE III 27; ~iente angustia T. Mon. Will. VI 8 (v. devolvere 1b). 2 (?) to be appeased. desevit, ab †iracuntia lenitur GlC D 168.

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