repelle
Dictionary entries
- Entry →repello, repellere, reppuli, repulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive/push/thrust back/away; repel/rebuff/spurn; fend off; exclude/bar; refute;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...evidentem quoque metum respue; si minus, vitio vitium repelle, spe metum tempera. Nihil tam certum..." - M
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...vade hercule, si libet, et corpus in fluctum repelle, aut, si parum celebri loco videtur abiectum, inice manum..."