aemule

English

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aemule (third-person singular simple present aemules, present participle aemuling, simple past and past participle aemuled)

Obsolete form of emulate (“to emulate”).
- 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  æmuled of many

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