dolose

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dolosus; compare dolus.

Adjective

dolose

  1. (rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
    • 1854, Patrick Mac Chombaich de Colquhoun, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:
      That having been obtained, everything should be restored to the former position, and the dolose party be condemned.
    • 1908, William Warwick Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave, page 692:
      Several texts tell us, however, that when the owner was a minor, there is a remedy against the dolose slave.
    • 2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 72:
      A dolose act was an act committed with a view to causing damage. [] a dolose act will by construction always be culpable; on the other hand, a culpable act might either be dolose, if the occurrence of the harm was intended, or not, if it was not.

Anagrams


Italian

Adjective

dolose

  1. feminine plural of doloso

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) dolōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of dolōsus

References

  • dolose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dolose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dolose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.