detorqueant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detorqueo, detorquere, detorsi, detortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn/twist/bend/pull away/aside; deflect; deviate (path); divert; sway;; distort, bend out of shape; pervert, misrepresent, twist sense of, alter form;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...dextras facies ostendant, sunt, quae sinistras, sunt, quae detorqueant et uertant: quid ergo mirum est eiusmodi speculum..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...indulgentia molliat, non copiae principales ad segnitiem luxumque detorqueant; tunc ego, seu montibus, seu mari exerceatur, et laetum..."