coerceat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coerceo, coercere, coercui, coercitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
enclose, confine; restrain, check, curb, repress; limit; preserve; punish;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oratio insurgant: quae vere bona, quid mitiget metus, coerceat cupiditates, eximat nos opinionibus vulgi animumque caelestem cognatis sideribus..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...exemplis, ut aliud alii tribuens dispertiat, ut interpellatorem coerceat, ut aliquid reticere se dicat, ut denuntiet quid caveant..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...fecunda licentia Nili, cur vada desidant et ripa coerceat undas Cecropio stagnata luto, cur invida Memphis, , curve Therapnaei..."