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obire [CL] 1 to come up against, meet, undertake, fulfil. obeunda, exsequenda GlC O 9; nec deerat mulieri spiritus ad obeunda regni munia W. Malm. GR I 32. 2 (diem or mortem obire) to meet one’s last day or death, die; b (intr. or absol.) to die; c (w. abl. to indicate cause or instrument of death); d (as quasi-pass.); e (partly fig. or fig. also with ref. to stopping). f (obiit as sb.) death; g (leg., as form of custom). diem obiit, asualt GlC D 249; apud Rofecestram diem obiens W. Malm. GR I 65; ut ‥ amaram mortem obiret Id. GP V 240 p. 394.  b nec ‥ cruentus carnifex obeuntem virginem gratulabundus conspexit Aldh. VirgP 42 p. 294; saepe videmus bonos sine filiis obire Bede Prov. 979; per deserta negans Dominum perit inproba turba / ac mandante Deo legifer almus obit Alcuin Carm. 69. 92; †900 (11c) quando ælfred rex obiit CS 594; 10‥ non obgerit [i.~e. obierit], ne swylteþ WW; omnes justi qui obierunt ante vitalem ejus mortem exultant diruptione captivitatis suae Anselm (Or. 7) III 21.  c Severus ‥ apud Eboracum oppidum morbo obiit Bede HE I 5 p. 17; Constantius ‥ in Brittania morte obiit Ib. I 8 p. 22; defunctus est ‥ Aurelius Ambrosius cujus obitu obibimus omnes G. Mon. VIII 15.  d 1243 inquirat utrum infans ‥ qui nuper obitus fuit ‥ in S., obitus fuit casu inopinato, an per feloniam RGasc I 204b..  e si hoc carneum animae ergastulum ‥ non obierit Aldh. VirgP 60 p. 321; ut licet ex humanis exemptus ‥ in meo tamen animo numquam videatur obiisse Ailr. Spir. Amicit. II 5. 670A; stridor sonabit dencium admirandus / motus obibunt orbium oberrantes J. Howd. Cant. 140.  f eodem ‥ tempore obiit episcopus Landavensis Willelmus, cujus obiit cecitas septennis subarraverat M. Par. Maj. V 382.  g 1396 seisiti ‥ de quadam consuetudine sive custuma vocata obit Pat 346 m. 30. 3 to go about, to visit. ut ‥ post dies, salutis vigore refuso, cuncta loca sua obiret W. Malm. GP III 109 p. 243. 4 to go around or about, to surround: a (of topographical feature); b (w. ref. to accompanying in a group). a obeuntia, gignentia [i.~e. cingentia] GlC O 45; hanc [vallem] obeunt montes; rorant aspergine fontes R. Cant. Malch. I 388; flumen eam [sc. tellurem, i.~e. Durham] ferri preceps obit instar equini L. Durh. Dial. I 275.  b quarundam [equarum] ventres fetibus protument, alias editi fetus obeunt ‥ sequela inseparabilis W. Fitzst. Thom. prol. 11.

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