destitui
Dictionary entries
- Entry →destituo, destituere, destitui, destitutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fix/set (in position), set up, make fast; leave destitute/without; render void;; desert/leave/abandon/forsake/leave in lurch; disappoint/let down; fail/give up;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin.
Examples
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APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...sequentia videbat, tot praecedentia, tot circumfusa, subito solum destitui. Contentus erit his interim convictoribus." Haec ait et turpi..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...verba tota exierint, quorum pars devorari, pars destitui solet, plerisque extremas syllabas non perferentibus dum priorum sono indulgent..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...pedes: neque enim aut hiare semper vocalibus aut destitui temporibus volunt sermo atque epistula, sed non fluunt..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...expediet. LXI. Turbari memoria vel continuandi verba facultate destitui nusquam turpius, cum vitiosum prohoemium possit videri cicatricosa facies..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uictae Carthagini detrahebantur, cum inermem iam ac nudam destitui inter tot armatas gentes Africae cerneretis, nemo ingemuit: nunc..."