adgessit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adgero, adgerere, adgessi, adgestus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
heap/cover up over, pile/build up, erect; accumulate; intensify, exaggerate;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...fimo tinctum in scrobem demisit, deinde terram non adgessit tantum, sed calcavit et pressit. Negat quicquam esse..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...iturus in aethera vertex, 40deposuit iuxta vivamque adgessit harenamoptatisque aspergit aquis et talia mandat:'vive diu nostri pignus..."