distendimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distendo, distendere, distendi, distentus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stretch (apart); spread out; distend; extend; rack; detract, perplex;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1stpl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...laboramus; infelicem animum nunc superbia inflamus, nunc cupiditate distendimus; alias uoluptate lassamus, alias sollicitudine exurimus; quod est miserrimum..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...abominamur sive obicimus adversas Sive in latus utramque distendimus sive satisfacientes aut supplicantes (diversi autem sunt hi gestus..."