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1 ŏvare [CL] 1 to celebrate minor triumph. de pugna ‥ venientes ‥ victores ‥ oves immolabant. unde et ovans dictum est; nam ovatio proprio erat minor triumphus Alb. Lond. DG 6. 33. 2 to rejoice (at), exult; b (w. abl.). Virgo triumphat ovans, zelus in hoste furit (Vers.) Bede HE IV 18 p. 248; se ovante [v. l. ovanti] spiritu ad perennis regni gaudia praeparare coepit Felix Guthl. 50 p. 152; Pater immensae majestatis misericorditer relaxa culpis / ut cum Domino possit mirifice ovare cum ceruphin atque seraphin (Æthelwald Or.) Cerne 41; sic obantes et letantes Hugeb. Wynn. 2; in te mansit ovans sancta propago patrum Alcuin Carm. 9. 44; in qua sanctus ovat Christo sub principe pollens Wulf. Swith. I 1295; o fallax fortuna, suis vergenda repente / quos sua dextra levat hos sua leva premat / fingit, ovat, recipit, tradit, variat, negat, aufert (De morte Henrici IV) Pol. Poems II 122.  b hujus [Gregorii] alumnorum numero glomeramur ovantes Aldh. VirgV 877; prospero obans [v. l. ovans] fratrum comitatu pervenit ad locum Willib. Bonif. 4 p. 16; 931 scedula ‥ episcopis, abbatibus, ducibus ‥ regia dapsilitate ovantibus perscripta est CS 677; ita rex clarus, successibus ovans, regnum regressus est W. Malm. GR V 399; castra Venus renovari / novis ovat populis / et tenellas populari / blandis mentes stimulis P. Blois Carm. 7. 2. 16.
2 ōvare [cf. CL ōvatus=egg-shaped] , to lay eggs. aves ‥ nidificant, ovant [Trevisa: leggiþ eyren], pullificant, pullos generatos nutriunt Bart. Angl. XII intr.p. 509; ideo non ovant hujusmodi sed seminant Bacon VI 108; dico quod tam in animalibus ovantibus quam in non-ovantibus set extrinsecus generantibus possunt accidere monstra et peccata Ib. VIII 130; columbe ovant omni tempore anni et pullos faciunt si fuerit earum mansio calida et consorcio hominum posita cum cibo sufficienti et parato Upton 177.

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