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
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..."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..."