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
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..."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..."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..."