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scelerare [CL], ~ari 1 to act wickedly, commit a crime. ~o, A. to do felanye WW. 2 (p. ppl. as adj.) characterized by crime, bad, wrong, wicked, sinful, criminal: a (of person or group); b (of spec. act or behaviour); c (in gl.). a quid illi quoque ~ato regi Israhel istorum conmanipulari Gildas EB 40; episcopus et abbas hominem ~atum servum possunt habere, si pretium redimendi non habet Theod. Pen. II 2. 5; doctus in horrenda ~atorum arte magorum Aldh. VirgV 1855; [Satana] dicitur princeps ‥ mundi ~ati et caliginosi H. Reading (I) Mem. 1303; Hugo ‥ Malus-clericus, omnium hominum ~atissimus V. Thom. A 77; insanit carnifex et tortor pessimus / ‥ / veneno plenior quam stilo prodimus / et sceleracior longe quam seribimus Walt. Wimb. Carm. 250.  b illam ‥ ~atissimo adscivisti conubio ‥ Gildas EB 35; de ~ata conversatione Ib. 66; [latro] qui fuit usque crucem sceleratis impius actis Bede Hymn. 14. 29; tenax luxus, scelerata libido Ib. 14. 119; clerici ‥ ~atissimam vitam agentes Osb. V. Elph. 125; ad ‥ ~atum ministerium exsecrabiliter consummandum P. Blois Ep. 138.  c 10‥ ~atus vel facinorosus, forscyldegod WW. 3 (bot.): a (herba ~ata, also ellipt. as sb. f.) celery-leaved crowfoot (Ranunculus sceleratus). b (as sb. n.) darnel (Lolium temulentum). a herba ~ata þæt is clufðung Leechdoms I 10; clufþunge ‥ man ~atam Ib. I 98; ~atam igitur siquis ignorans manducaverit, ridendo exanimabitur Neckam NR II 62; apium risus, i. herba ~ata SB 11; herba ~ata, i. apium risus SB 24; herba celerata [corr. to scelerata] et apium risus idem Herb. Harl. 3388 f. 80v; ~ata, cerfoile, crowfote MS Camb. UL Dd. 11. 45 f. 114va; apium risus, herba ~ata, vel murtillana, sive brutacea vel brutacesci, ferula idem Alph. 11.  b ~atum, i. lollium, popul MS BL Sloane 962 f. 11v. 4 (p. ppl. as sb. m.) wrongdoer: a (with regard to specific act) criminal, felon, miscreant. b (in general) wicked person, evildoer, sinner. a penam minui qui mortem acceleravi. ~atus enim, quanto plus vixerit, tanto plus peccabit W. Malm. GR II 202; ~atos torquet per justitiam Pull. Sent. 704; s1294 talibus concedere ~atis (v. dimissorius c); s1381 decreverunt omnes repertos sceleratiores [v. l. ~atos] protractione, suspensione, punire Wals. HA II 20; s1298 ipsi vero celeratissimi ut hunc egenum inter ceteros interimerent tot suam mortibus injuriam vindicarunt Chr. S. Edm. 71.  b peccata, quae communiter cum omnibus ~atis agit Gildas EB 1; scelus idolatriae esse nolle Deo adquiescere ‥ ~ati isti ‥ Ib. 38; immanitatibus dicti ~ati Ad. Marsh Ep. 116. 5 (as sb. n.) evil deed. redierunt ad pristinas sordes, immo ~atiora fecerunt Bede HE IV 23.

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