abscinderer
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. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- P
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..." - Q
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..." - P
Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...inde nullo iuvante influit oneratque, donec abscindas. Nec abscindere aere ferrove possis: fugit cruorem vestemque infectam sanguine..."