dimittunt
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. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...rebus. florescunt tempore certo arbusta et certo dimittunt tempore florem. nec minus in certo dentes cadere imperat aetas..."Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quae sentimus sentire necessest. quod si forte suum dimittunt corpore sensum atque alium capiunt, quid opus fuit adtribui..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...humiles uidet leonum, quos uelox leporum timor fatigat. Dimittunt, repetunt, amantque captos, et securior est in ore praeda..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...eius est quem clamores imperitorum hilarem ex auditorio dimittunt! Quid laetaris quod ab hominibus his laudatus es quos..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...Quid ergo? non aliquando in ira quoque et dimittunt incolumes intactosque quos oderunt et a nocendo abstinent?' Faciunt..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...replicantur et pendent et vocem tantum altera parte dimittunt. Lambere quoque ea et mordere deforme est, cum etiam..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...semideumque pecus, migrantibus aggemit illis silua, nec amplexae dimittunt robora Nymphae. ut cum possessas auidis uictoribus arces..."Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...cognossent, duces Bellovacorum veriti similem obsessionem Alesiae noctu dimittunt eos quos aut aetate aut viribus inferiores aut inermes..."