dirimebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dirimo, dirimere, diremi, diremptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pull/break/take apart; cleave; sort (votes); break up/dissolve (joint activity);; divide; separate/cut off/remove; delay/interrupt temporally/put off/frustrate;; cause to diverge;; draw a line/boundary; settle, impose decision on (dispute);
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...collem subito conscendere cursu,qui medius tutam castris dirimebat Ilerdam,imperat. huc hostem pariter terrorque pudorqueinpulit, et rapto..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...relinqui iussit. murus inde qui urbem ab arce dirimebat dirutus est ac disiectus. Dum haec Tarenti aguntur, Hannibal..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...esset. Duum milium planities castra Romana ab Hernicis dirimebat; ibi pari ferme utrimque spatio in medio pugnatum..."