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prospectare

prospectare [CL] 1 to gaze out at, observe, watch. b (intr.) to gaze out. o fili Joseph, qui tam pulcher es ut te tota de muris ‥ et fenestris puellarum Aegypti turba ~et Alcuin Exeg. 561C (= Ps.-Bede Gen., PL XCIII 362B); fumigantes aestuantis inferni cavernas ~ans Felix Guthl. 31 p. 104; mulieres a murorum et propugnaculorum spectaculis suorum miserias ~abant Ord. Vit. IX 9 p. 532.  b hoc scelus ‥ / castigat ex superis prospectans arcibus ultor Aldh. VirgV 2599; Dominus post resurrectionem ‥ omnibus longa acie ~antibus in celum se assumpserit Gosc. Lib. Confort. 31; hac tumultuatione ~antibus aliis ille gravi quadam dignitate subridens metum eorum reprehendebat G. Crispin Herl. 89. 2 to look out for, watch for (an event). vestimentum ‥ significat sacramentum, dorsa memoriam praeteritorum, quia passionem transactam Christi celebrat ecclesia, non adhuc ~at futuram (Ps.-Bede Gen.) PL XCIII 298A.

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