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
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..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...genus olei cedro simile. Pluteos rescindit, ac munitiones demolitur, locoque summo potitur. Et sequebantur equites catafracti. Equis paria..."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..."