declinandis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →declino, declinare, declinavi, declinatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
deflect/divert/turnaside/swerve/change direction/deviate/dodge; digress/diverge;; avoid/stray; vary/be different; bend/sink down, subside/decline; lower/descend;; decline/conjugate/inflect (in the same manner/like); change word form, modify;
abl. pl. fut. pass. part.dat. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...fustibus vapulasset, "innocens", inquit: tum declinandi, quod est frequentissimum: "quaero an occideris hominem", respondetur "latronem": "an fundum occupaveris..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quamquam secutus antiquos C. Caesar utitur hac ratione declinandi; sed auctoritatem consuetudo superavit. LXIV. In ceteris quae poterunt..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...vero strepitus dissoni, casus incerti, neque feriendi neque declinandi providentia: unde clamor acciderat, circumagere corpora, tendere artus; nihil..."