demittimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demitto, demittere, demisi, demissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drop, let fall; sink; send/cast/go/flow/float/slope down; flow/shed/let (blood);; bend/stoop/bow/sag; lower (eyes); let (clothes/hair/beard) hang down;; bring/strike down; plunge/insert/thrust/plant; dismiss/demote; depose; absorb;; descend by race/birth; leave (will); let issue rest (on evidence); fell (tree);
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nostras circumdedit, in quas multa sudatione corpora exsaniata demittimus, nisi aquam argentea epitonia fuderunt. Et adhuc plebeias fistulas..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quidquid exspectantibus fortuna proiecit, id sine ulla voluptate demittimus statim, ad rapinam alterius erecti et attoniti.' Hoc sapienti..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...occidimus et morbidis pecoribus, ne gregem polluant, ferrum demittimus; portentosos fetus extinguimus, liberos quoque, si debiles monstrosique editi..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tractemus et, ut cibos mansos ac prope liquefactos demittimus quo facilius digerantur, ita lectio non cruda sed multa..."VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...esse deserere contendimus, atque eo causam demittimus, ut non sit absolvendus adulescens nisi etiam laudandus. qui autem dubitat..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...certamen, nisi e campo in cauam hanc viam demittimus equos. Ibi nullo ad euagandum spatio comminus conserentur manus..."