abscindere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →abscindo, abscindere, abscidi, abscissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tear (away/off) (clothing); cut off/away/short; part, break, divide, separate;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...heroum infusaque flumina prosunt. tum pius Aeneas umeris abscindere vestem auxilioque vocare deos et tendere palmas: 'Iuppiter omnipotens..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...dolitura negatum, quaerere plus prodest et inane abscindere soldo? num, tibi cum faucis urit sitis, aurea quaeris pocula..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...inde nullo iuvante influit oneratque, donec abscindas. Nec abscindere aere ferrove possis: fugit cruorem vestemque infectam sanguine..."