conprimi
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;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Hanc in partes diuisimus: oportebat cupiditates refrenari,metus conprimi, facienda prouideri, reddenda distribui: conprehendimustemperantiam, fortitudinem, prudentiam, iustitiam..."Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...consules gesserant. magis e re publica uisum erat, conprimi ac sedari exasperatos Ligures. cum Macedonicum bellum expectaretur, Gentium..."