confringerent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confringo, confringere, confregi, confractus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
break up/down/in pieces/in two; shatter/destroy/crush/ruin/wreck; subvert/undo;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...armisdedignatur iter: latis exire ruinisquaerit, et inpulso turres confringere uallo,perque omnis gladios et qua uia caede paranda..."In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...vestram equitumque Romanorum et tantam conspirationem bonorum omnium confringere et labefactare possit. [23] Quae cum ita sint..."
