adsciscis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adscisco, adsciscere, adscivi, adscitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
adopt, assume; receive, admit, approve of, associate; take over, claim;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...licet. Nobilissimorum ingeniorum familiae sunt: elige in quam adscisci uelis; non in nomen tantum adoptaberis, sed in ipsa..."Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...loquor, aut iustitiam aut amicitiam propter utilitates adscisci aut probari. eaedem enim utilitates poterunt eas labefactare atque pervertere..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...suis victoriis augeri rem publicam, in suum cognomentum adscisci imperatores. Nec legatus obviam ibat: quippe plurium vaecordia constantiam..."