excussere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →excusso, excussare, excussavi, excussatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Medieval
excuse/justify/explain; make excuse for/plead as excuse; allege; absolve/exempt;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd - Entry →excutio, excutere, excussi, excussus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
shake out or off; cast out; search, examine;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mixti. Fulgit item, nubes ignis cum semina multa excussere suo concursu, ceu lapidem si percutiat lapis aut ferrum..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...obuia passi conloquia, amplexus etiam dextrasque suorum excussere umeris. tunc frontem auersaque terga partiti laterumque sinus, uallum undique..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...quam si triumpharetur. Ergo sustulerant animos, et iugum excusserant: nec iam nobiscum de sua libertate, sed de nostra..."