proscindere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →proscindo, proscindere, proscidi, proscissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
cut (surface), slit, gash; plow (unbroken land); flay with words, castigate;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- M
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uidit, primus raptam librare bipennemausus et aeriam ferro proscindere quercumeffatur merso uiolata in robora ferro 435'iam nequis..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...causa valido consueta bidenti ingemere et terram pressis proscindere aratris. si non fecundas vertentes vomere glebas terraique solum..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pondus grave cogit aratri ducere et insuetum ferro proscindere campum: mirantur Colchi, Minyae clamoribus augent adiciuntque animos. galea..."