adlevantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adlevo, adlevare, adlevavi, adlevatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
lift/raise/heap/pile up, exalt; alleviate/diminish/weaken; comfort/console/cheer; smooth, smooth off, make smooth; polish; depilate;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...recursus et quasdam obversationes per quas descendunt et adlevantur ac speciem interdum stantium praebent, cum caelestibus stare..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ostenditur. Adnuendi quoque et renuendi ratione demittuntur aut adlevantur. LXXX. Naribus labrisque non fere quicquam decenter ostendimus, tametsi..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...gradus ascendant, tamen velut acervo quodam adlevantur: XXVII. "Quid enim tuus ille, tubero, destrictus in acie Pharsalica gladius..."