demoliture
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demolio, demolire, demolivi, demolitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
throw/cast off, remove; pull/tear down, demolish/destroy/lay waste; abolish;
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
- L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...operibus exstruxit cito subruitur, nihil non longa demolitur uetustas et mouet; at iis quae consecrauit sapientia nocere..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...genus olei cedro simile. Pluteos rescindit, ac munitiones demolitur, locoque summo potitur. Et sequebantur equites catafracti. Equis paria..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...liceat. Arcus enim et statuas, aras etiam templaque demolitur et obscurat oblivio, negligit carpitque posteritas: contra, contemptor ambitionis..."