dimittamus
Dictionary entries
- 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;
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quam gravitatem animi atque constantiam. quare illam quidem dimittamus et suis se finibus tenere iubeamus, ne blanditiis eius..."Liber XLII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...militibus uenerimus et praesidia in singulas urbes dimittamus. ad hanc interrogationem tuam et non respondere, uereor, ne superbum..."