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effluere [CL] 1 to flow out or ebb; b (fig.). c to derive, descend. d (phil.) to emanate. e (of garment) to slip off. ut ~eret noxius umor qui inerat Bede HE IV 17 p. 245; quare in quibusdam provinciis mare ~at et refluat et in quibusdam non? Quaest. Salern. N 58; quolibet unda die refluit bis et effluit illic Garl. Tri. Eccl. 65; venas capitales, ex quibus ab ejus capite acutis spinis coronato sanguis ~xit [ME: þet bledden on his heaved] AncrR 95.  b omnium bonorum copia plenis ~ebat cornibus W. Malm. GP I 18; lapis fluens percusso latere / petre latus presignat libere, / quo fluenta sciunt effluere / et nos aqua viva reficere J. Howd. Ph. 936.  c ex Woden ‥ Elle originaliter ~xit R. Cold. Osw. 1 p. 339.  d liquet eum [Creatorem] in singulorum creatione venerabilis exempli normam secutum‥. hec in ipso ab ipso non discrepat; ~ens intelligentiam perficit; derivata intellectus fit forma‥. ~entem materie inhabilitate non percipimus; derivatam pauci admodum et laboriose ‥ assequuntur Alf. Angl. Cor 15. 1–2; forme ‥ vel species mentis angelice ‥ ~unt ab essencia divina W. Macclesfield Quaest. f. 6v.  e si tantum idonee lorica corpori coaptetur ligaturis suis, ne ~at R. Niger Mil. I 5. 2 (of persons): a (w. p. ppl. s. act.) having burst out. b to be voluble (in speech). c to be lavish (in bounty). d to wander at large. a s1202 Arthurus ‥ totus ~xus in lacrymas et ‥ querimonias Oxnead Chr. 114.  b Lanfrancus ‥ gesta scripto excepit ‥ modeste ‥, ut nec scienda pretermitteret nec dicendo ~eret W. Malm. GP I 42; macte Paris — quid enim numerandis improba veris / effluo et in titulos suspiro prodiga J. Exon. BT II 406; vir ‥ mollito super oleum ~ens sermone Gir. TH III 52; inter varios quibus ~unt sermones Id. DK I 16 p. 195.  c in ‥ largitione ‥ longe pre ceteris ~ebat Gir. GE II 27 p. 297.  d quasi indomitus et effrenis per seculi devia excurri, †~i [? l. effluxi], erravi in invio H. Bos. Thom. IV 13 p. 367. 3 a (of time) to flow by, elapse; b (p. ppl. s. act.). c (of events) to slip (of memory). a jam agenti in tenebris tertius ~xerat annus Ailr. Ed. Conf. 763D; nulla fere dies ~ebat ei qua non ipse aliqua magna largiretur donaria W. Fitzst. Thom. 12; si due [consonantes] precedunt vocalem et tercia sequatur [sic], necesse unum ad minus tempus in prolacione illarum ~ere Ps.-Gros. Gram. 26; non multum tempus ~xerat Arthur & Gorlagon 10.  b 1293 post terminum ‥ peremptorium completum totaliter et ~xum DCCant. Register/Q f. 53a; 1302 de primo anno jam ~xo MGL II 232; 1325 tempus ‥ archiepiscopi, infra quod ecclesiam debuit contulisse, totaliter est ~xum Lit. Cant. I 136; c1350 infra certum peremptorie terminum competentem jam ~xum MunAcOx 170; 1458 (v. curriculum 3); 1474 tricesimo die mensis Julii ultimo ~xo RScot 444b.  c s1470 quum ea que multis jam retroactis ~xere seculis ‥ ad agnicionem modernorum minime pervenerunt Croyl. Cont. B 545.

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