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repedare [CL], ~iare 1 to go back, return, retire, withdraw; b (w. ad or in & acc., or in & abl.); c (w. acc. of place or person of destination); d (w. internal acc.). e to return to the task of (w. ad & gdv.). f (transf.) to go back in temporal sequence, to return (in writing or narration) to (w. ad & acc.). g to return (in one's heart or mind) to, to return (to one's allegiance or devotion) to (w. ad & acc.). superno ~anti [gl.: revertenti, ongean hworfendum] sponso feliciter occurrere Aldh. VirgP 16; ~are, redire Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 506; hoc audito festinis passibus ~avit Gir. GE II 17 p. 248; ~are illuc unde venimus Found. Waltham 19; jussit quendam ‥ arcem ascendere, si quoquam eum ~antem adverteret Hist. Meriadoci 363; et Jerosolimam proficiscentibus / una cum parvulo Christi parentibus, / puer non repedat cum repedantibus Walt. Wimb. Carm. 262; progredi non valens ‥ ~iavit (Offic. Kentig.) Reg. Glasg. app. 3 p. xci (cf. Offic. Kentig. xcix: nec ‥ transgredi valens ‥ ad suum monasterium ~avit).  b egressus ad suam domum ~abat Bede HE IV 22 p. 259; disposuit ‥ ad Angliam pro caritatis studio ~are Folc. V. Bot. 4; cum summa exultatione et gratia per se ~arunt ad propria V. Neot. A 10; ad regem citius ~avit Ad. Eyns. Hug. II 5; 1282 paulo post ‥ ad domum ‥ avit IMisc 41/16; sentiens se ‥ delusum, in Angliam ~at Chr. Battle (1258–65) 373; timuit in partibus e quibus ‥ venerat ~are Fordun Chr. I 11 (= Bower I 12).  c quibus ‥ Romam ‥ ~antibus Gildas EB 6; atque domum dives propriam repedavit iniquus Alcuin WillV 20. 15; 1004 umbras denuo victus ~at infernales Ch. Burton 28 p. 49; ab incolis censu refutato tributario ‥ ministri falsitatis dominum ~arunt iniquitatis Herm. Arch. 3; quin faceret reditum, quin rus repedaret avitum R. Cant. Malch. I 217; in perpetuum Angliam ‥ non ~abis Chr. Battle f. 26v; exercitus autem ejus labore ‥ fatigatus, domum occulte ~iavit V. Ric. II 175.  d turbatus tunc clericus ~avit iter quo venerat Ælf. Æthelwold 21 (cf. Wulf. Æthelwold 32: repetiit iter).  e cum resumptis viribus fratrisque auxilio ~aret ad debellandum regnum Enc. Emmae II 1.  f ut ad priora ~antes paucis quae sunt gesta memoremus Bede HE V 19.  g [vobis] ex corde ad Deum ~antibus Gildas EB 50. 2 (in gl., esp. of horse) to step backwards, balk, jib. equo insideat ‥ neque ~anti [gl.: arere alaunt, realant] neque antepedanti Neckam Ut. 99; ~are, regibber Gl. AN Glasg. f. 21rc; ~are, regibber Gl. AN Ox. 393.

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