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depello

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depello

  1. first-person singular present indicative of depellere

Latin

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Etymology

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    From dē- + pellō (push, drive).

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    dēpellō (present infinitive dēpellere, perfect active dēpulī, supine dēpulsum); third conjugation

    1. to drive out or away; remove, expel, repel
    2. to drive, thrust or cast down
    3. (military) to drive or push away or dislodge an enemy from his position
    4. to thrust out or remove from a situation, avert
    5. to deter, divert, dissuade from
    6. to remove from the breast, wean

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    References

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    • depello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • depello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • depello”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to allay one's hunger, thirst: famem sitimque depellere cibo et potione
      • to be forced to change one's mind: de sententia deici, depelli, deterreri
      • to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
      • to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
      • to lose hope: spe deici, depelli, deturbari
      • to clear oneself of a suspicion: suspicionem a se removere, depellere, propulsare (Verr. 3. 60. 140)
      • to meet force by force: vim vi depellere
      • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
      • to deliver some one from slavery: ab aliquo servitutem or servitutis iugum depellere
      • to drive the enemy from his position: loco movere, depellere, deicere hostem (B. G. 7. 51)