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explodere [CL] 1 to drive away (by clapping). virgo ‥ / ingentem explodit sancta virtute colubrum Aldh. VirgV 2404; ~dit, excludit atynið GlC E 414; ~datur, i. expellatur, sy ut aned vel awrecen sy GlH E 723; Bald. Cant. 491C (v. exsibilare). 2 to remove, cast off. b (gram.) to elide. versu / explosis penitus naevis et rusticitate Aldh. Aen. pref. 26; ~sa, i‥. evacuata, deleta GlH E 721; quod mater audiens et muliebriter stupens de equo quo sedit repente ~sa decidit R. Cold. Godr. 344.  b si prior vocalis ~ditur, erit sinalipha Aldh. Met. 9; a poetis per sincopam vocalis U ~ditur Id. PR 125; ~sa, elisa GlC E 447; ~dita, i. elisa GlH E 724. 3 to burst, explode. b to destroy, abolish. c to show up (pretence), expose (vice), ‘explode’ (opinion). ne balena vorax valvas explodat Olimpi Aldh. VirgV 2535; ~sa, i‥. fracta GlH E 721; cute pluribus subito locis quasi ~sa T. Mon. Will. VI 14; scis qua vi fulminis ignis exploditur Walt. Wimb. Carm. 388.  b ~si, extincti GlC E 363; execrabilia ‥ lolia ‥ negligenter respersa fundotenus ~dant B. V. Dunst. 1; decreti chirographo ‥ renuit et vim ejus omnem et auctoritatem ~sit H. Bos. Thom. III 29.  c Dominus ‥ factiosam farisaicae temptationis calumniam ‥ ~dit Aldh. VirgP 18; 1168 [Stoicorum] opinio ~sa est fidelissima ratione et virtute rectius philosophantium J. Sal. Ep. 235 (276 p. 584) ; sic capellani illius comperta est cupiditas et ~sa Gir. GE I 48 p. 128; Turner Av. 16 (v. aurivittis). 4 (p. ppl.) stricken. cumque jaceret ~sa [mulier a daemone vexata] et jamjamque videretur moritura Bede CuthbP 15; decubuit exanimis et ~sa R. Cold. Cuthb. 119 p. 265; Id. Godr. 353 (v. epilepsia).

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