exstinguit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →exstinguo, exstinguere, exstinxi, exstinctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
put out, extinguish, quench; kill, destroy;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...dormire se dormiens cogitat: gravis sopor etiam somnia exstinguit animumque altius mergit quam ut in ullo intellectu..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...prohibete, precor, facinusque repellite neve caede sacerdotis flammas exstinguite Vestae!' Talia nequiquam toto Venus anxia caelo verba iacit..."