depulere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →depello, depellere, depuli, depulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive/push out//off/away/aside, repel; expel; remove, wean; banish utterly;; dislodge; avert; rebut; veer away; force to withdraw/desist; turn out/dismiss;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ipsa, damnatura sui non est delicta mariti. postera depulerant Aurorae lumina noctem: egredior silvamque peto victorque per herbas..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...confugerant Armenii, alterum impetu captum; qui primam vim depulerant, obsidione coguntur. unde in regionem Tauraunitium transgressus improvisum periculum..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...regressu sacra Samothracum visere nitentem obvii aquilones depulere. igitur adito Ilio quaeque ibi varietate fortunae et nostri origine..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...nobis incesta. Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere, caeso ariete velut in contumeliam Hammonis..."