dimittas
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;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tantum ut sit tibi etiam tui reverentia, licebit dimittas paedagogum: interim aliquorum te auctoritate custodi - aut Cato ille..."XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quid facturus, si pernegaverit? videlicet, ut laudes, deinde dimittas, ut amplectaris perusta vitalia et laceri pectoris vulnera pietati..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...altera tamen fortius, ne me suspensum incertumque dimittas, cum mihi consulendi causa fuerit, ut dubitare desinerem. Vale..."