grassatio

grassātĭo, ōnis, f. [grassor],

• a rioting (post-Aug. and very rare): nocturnae, Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; cf. the foll. art. and grassatura.

grassātio, ōnis, f. (grassor), die Herumschwärmerei auf den Straßen, Auson. perioch. Iliad. 10. Commodian. apol. 182: Plur., grassationes nocturnae, Plin. 13, 126. Vgl. Gloss. ›grassatio, λωποδυσία‹.

grassatio [CL] , predatory attack (also fig.). febrium ~one Gosc. Mir. Iv. lxxxii (v. conscindere c); super hac ‥ ecclesie depressione alteraque ‥ Pharaonis ~one G. Steph. I 13; objurgat justitie murmuratio et ejus officio et intellectui et rationi pravorum ~o motuum R. Niger Mil. II 46; injuriarum crebra ~o Ib. IV 34; cum generalis depopulatio occuparet universam terram Anglie, ‥ predas et rapinas, incendia et cedes sibi invicem incolis agitantibus, gravis meror obsedit cor viri Dei. ‥ finito termino quo predixit, pariter finivit ~o Canon. G. Sempr. 79v.

grassātĭō, ōnis, f. (grassor), brigandage : Plin. 23, 126.

grassatio , onis. f. v. grassor.


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