destituis
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
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..."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..."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..."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..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uictae Carthagini detrahebantur, cum inermem iam ac nudam destitui inter tot armatas gentes Africae cerneretis, nemo ingemuit: nunc..."