Meanings (ES + gloss)
saciar
To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
slake the heavenly fire
apagar
To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavem…
apagar
Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
aflojar
To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.
When the body's strongest sinews slake.
disminuir
To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force.
wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynn…
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