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moechari

moechari [CL] 1 (intr.) to fornicate. b to commit adultery. c (fig.). et cum sua matre ~atus est (Columba) NLA I 200.  b ninnarius, cujus uxor ~atur, scit et tacet GlC N 125; mechor, -aris, i. adulterari Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 341; interrogatus si juraret se nunquam ~atum fuisse, ait “pejus enim est adulterio perjurium” W. Burley Vit. Phil. 10; sextum mandatum, non makaberis Ludus Coventriae f. 33v..  c mechatur vicium, mores devirginat, illos / corrumpit, spoliat et quasi latro necat Garl. Epith. I 107. 2 (trans.) to cuckold. non scelus est gravius quam sponte suum dominantem / mechari, si quis domine fit mechus amator D. Bec. 1894. 3 (pr. ppl. as sb.) one committing adultery, adulterer or adulteress. sicut casta ‥ / conjunx ‥ fugit, / ‥ / aspectum, risus, munera, verba, jocos / contemnens, meritum et nomen mechantis abhorret J. Sal. Enth. Phil. 1807.

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