obripilatio = obrepilatio, synonym of horripilatio: fremissement, horreur,
according to Blaise, Dictionnaire latin-francais des auteurs chretiens.
Example from VIT. Caes.-Arel. 2,11. Related words are; obrepo (obripio),
ere; obrepticie; obreptio, onis. i/e variation is common.
At 11:48 AM 12/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Has any of you ever come across the (Latin) word "obripilatio"? I can't
>make head nor tail of it nor find it in OLD or or Niermeyer. It occurs in
>the context of a girl stricken suddenly with a seizure and afterward
>rendered hysterical. While working in the garden, she has just fallen to
>the ground:
>
>"Tum quoque, cum subita obripilatione, tremor membrorum continuus illi
>exstitit."
>
> I can provide more context if you like. My best guess is that the author
>has contructed it from "repello", so that it would connote being struck a
>blow, but it seems an awfully inflated word, and the spelling is bizarre.
>(This comes from a miracle collection from AASS, which in the volume I'm
>using is usually pretty careful to comment on, or to standardize, bizarre
>orthography.) Any ideas?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>
>Patrick Nugent.
>
>
>
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