destituisses
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. pluperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quod oculis scias, et brevissimum confessionis est genus destituisse quod videris. felices, dives, quos tortor interrogat..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...illius indicio silvis inventa sub altis dicitur inceptam destituisse fugam. nunc quoque per pueros iaculis incessitur index..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...potitos accepere, velut destituti ac non qui ipsi destituissent, increpare Palaepolitanos, ira atque invidia in Romanos furere..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...parte videar hanc de me fiduciam providentissimi viri destituisse. Quare ego vero Corelliae adero promptissime nec subire offensas..."