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
- L
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..." - P
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..."