exspirare

exspirare (exp-) [CL] 1 (intr.) to breathe out. b (intr., of humours, vapours, or sim.) to vent. c (trans.) to exhale, breathe. Ric. Med. Anat. 220 (v. epiglottis). b in estate ‥ velleres [ovium] abraduntur et calore exteriori aperiuntur pori et fumositas superflua ~at Quaest. Salern. B 69; ~ans ‥ corruptio urine [asinorum] Ib. C 22; complantatus quidem est spiritus, non quod non exhalet, sed quia nunquam totaliter ~at Alf. Angl. Cor 11. 16; ~ans per poros calor coagulata dissolvit Ib. 14. 7. c ore naribusque ignem flammasque ~ant Lib. Monstr. II 13; J. Blund An. 28 (v. exspiratio a). 2 to breathe out (one’s life). b (intr.) to breathe one’s last, die. c to run out, expire (also fig.). d (p. ppl. s. act.) having expired. qui ‥ tam gravi infirmitate detinebatur, ut vitalem videretur ~are spiritum (Berachus 9) VSH I 78; he is deed ‥ ~avit animam‥. efflavit spiritum Stanbr. Vulg. 21. b illa primum ‥ episcopo poculum letitie dedit qui sibi ~anti calicem mortis auferebat V. Cuthb. IV 3; egrotavit tandemque ingravescente morbo ‥ ~avit Ord. Vit. III 9 p. 107; qui penitus ~asse videbantur ‥ respirare compellit Gir. TH I 27; rex innocens suffocatus ~avit V. II Off. 24. c quod hujusmodi valeat in brevi ~are mandatum H. Bos. Ep. 1435D; ~avit inter eos fere caritas R. Niger Mil. IV 26; s1217 ~ante treuga (Ol. Scholasticus) M. Par. Maj. III 9; 1309 litem ‥ propter quam tantam pecuniam effundere oporteret totaliter ~asse Reg. Cant. 1053; Harclay Adv. 74 (v. exspiratio c). d 1191 termino ~ato et pactione ‥ infirmata (Lit. Regis) R. Howd. III 131; 1319 jacuit sub aqua ab hora prima ‥ diei Lune usque ad horam nonam diei sequentis ~atus ‥ et ‥ per Dei gratiam respiravit Conc. II 488a; 1577 concesserunt ‥ terminum annorum ‥ non ~atum Entries 679b.

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