dimissis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dimissus, dimissi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Latham (Medieval Word List)
- Age:
- Medieval
- Field:
- Military
surrender; handing over; demise;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →dimitto, dimittere, dimisi, dimissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
send away/off; allow to go, let go/off; disband, discharge, dismiss (soldiers);; dissolve (assembly); part with; put away; divorce; pay off, settle (debt);; release, set free; allow to escape/slip away; shake off/scatter/shed;; discontinue, renounce, abandon/forsake, forgo, give up (activity); dispatch;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Epidicus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Immo si audias meas pugnas, fugias manibus dimissis domum. MIL. Pol ego magis unum quaero, meas cui praedicem..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...nisi qui uinci potuere rebellant.sed, si solus eam dimissis degener armis,tunc mihi tecta patent. iam non excludere..."Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...simul eiusdem praesidis pater. Taurus sectatoribus commodum dimissis sedebat pro cubiculi sui foribus et cum assistentibus nobis sermocinabatur..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uento quem ignis ante se pressit. [21,1] Dimissis nunc praeceptoribus nostris incipiamus per nos moueri..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...poneret, in cubiculum se quasi gustaturus contulit et dimissis pueris quaedam per fenestram, ut uideretur edisse, proiecit..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...longum est quod patres quoque occisorum eadem nocte dimissis per domos centurionibus confecit, id est, homo misericors luctu..."de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...adulterium filiae suae damnaverat, adeo non occidit, ut dimissis, quo tutiores essent, diplomata daret. 4. Hoc est ignoscere..."Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...omnes patinae fervont, omnis aperio: is odos dimissis manibus in caelum volat. BAL. Odos dimissis manibus? COC. Peccavi..."
