conprimerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conprimo, conprimere, conpressi, conpressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
press, squeeze together, close;; press/squeeze together, fold, crush; hem/shut/keep/hold in; copulate (male);; suppress/control/stifle/frustrate/subdue/cow, put down; hold breath; silence;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...parum valui, cum facilius sit excludere quam admissa conprimere? Quidam ita distinxerunt ut dicerent, 'temperans ac prudens positione..." - M
XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...vero incesta sum, si possum moderari gemitus, conprimere lacrimas coite in funus, omnes liberi, omnes parentes, custodite planctus..."