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FEW: aspirare 25,494a Gdf: aspirer 1,420a GdfC: aspirer 8,207c TL: aspirer 1,563 DEAF: ∅ DMF: aspirer TLF: aspirer OED: aspire v. MED: aspiren v. DMLBS: aspirare 138b

v.a.

1 to breathe, draw in:

( 1360-79; MS: s.xiv^ex ) l'omme a ce q'il soit repuz, La mer, la terre et l'air aspire 8538

2 to blow (about, hither and thither):

( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) Ki venz porset tost est gabez Kar sodeement muent orez; Malinz espiriz le vunt gabant Ki par l’air le vunt aspirant 7120

3theol.to inspire:

( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Enz en sun quer si l’aspirat Que tres bien veit e certement Cum Deus voldrat le soen alment 142

( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 ) J.C. Doctrinat les =his Disciples […] E aspirat del saint Espirit 1028

( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 ) Deus li duna our, ki l'aveit aspiré 274

( s.xiii¹; MS: c.1340 ) sis (=God) aspirat e fist aller en la terre de Jerusalem (I) 175

v.n.

1to draw breath, breathe (in):

( s.xiii^3/4; MS: c.1275 ) Li quart espirit est odorer ou le quel est donee guster en attraxion de l’eyr e de le aspirer 613

aspirer a

1 to aspire to, hope to achieve:

( 1340 ) [...] a quele chose, od l'eide de Dieu, nous aspiroms ii 1111

p.pr._as_s.

1 (act of) breathing:

( 1360-79; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Et pour ce q'il serroit vivant, Del air fuist fait son aspirant 26948

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