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tame: “make to,” (i) subject or subjugate to John IV. ii. 262, Lr. IV. vi. 226 (Qq “made tame by fortune's blows”); (ii) familiarize with Troil. III. iii. 10. ∥ The fig. senses ‘submissive, meek’, ‘lacking animation, force, or effectiveness, spiritless’ are freq.