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
- M
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..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...relinqui iussit. murus inde qui urbem ab arce dirimebat dirutus est ac disiectus. Dum haec Tarenti aguntur, Hannibal..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...esset. Duum milium planities castra Romana ab Hernicis dirimebat; ibi pari ferme utrimque spatio in medio pugnatum..."