Abscedo, abseêdis, penult. prod. abscessi, abscessum, abscédere. To goe away from: to depart.Abscede. Plaut.Goe backe.Ab aliquo abscedere Plin.E conspectu meo abscessit.Plaut.Iam abscedet simul ac molam & vinum insperseris.Cic.It will go asunder.Sol abscedet. Plin. Irrito incœpto abscedere. Liuius. To departe, not hauing brought to passe that he began.DecÊ abscedÊt minæ. . abscedent enim, nõ accedent.Plaut.Ægritudo abscedit.Plaut.Decayeth or departeth.Citò ab eo hæc ire abscedet.Terent.Will quickly be gone from him. Abscedere etiam dicitur, quod incipit in abscessum seu apostema verti. Cels. To gather to an impostume. Abscéditur, penult. corr. Impersonale. Liu.Negat èrepublica esse vestigium abscedi ab Annibale.To depart one foote from Anniball.Abscessum est.Tacit.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
abs-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n. (sync. abscēssem = abscessissem, Sil. 8, 109), to go off or away, to depart.I.Lit.A. In gen.: abscede hinc, sis, sycophanta, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 162: meo e conspectu, id. Capt. 2, 3, 74: numquam senator a curiā abscessit aut populus e foro, Liv. 27, 50, 4; so, a corpore (mortui), Tac. A. 1, 7; cf. id. ib. 3, 5: ut abscesserit inde (i. e. e castris) dictator, Liv. 22, 25, 9: illorum navis longe in altum abscesserat, Plaut. Rud. prol. 66.B. In partic. 1.Milit. t. t., to march off, to depart, retire: non prius Thebani Spartā abscessissent quam, etc., Nep. Iphicr. 2 fin.: longius ab urbe hostium, Liv. 3, 8, 8; cf.: a moenibus Alexandriae, id. 44, 19, 11.—Absol.: si urgemus obsessos, si non ante abscedimus quam, etc., Liv. 5, 4, 10; so Nep. Epam. 9.—Impers.: abscedi ab hoste, Liv. 22, 33, 10; cf. id. 27, 4, 1: nec ante abscessum est quam, etc., id. 29, 2, 16; so, a moenibus abscessum est, id. 45, 11, 7: manibus aequis abscessum, Tac. A. 1, 63.2.To disappear, withdraw, be lost from view: cor (est) in extis: jam abscedet, simul ac, etc., will disappear, Civ. Div. 2, 16 fin.—Poet.: Pallada abscessisse mihi,
has withdrawn from me
,
from my power
, Ov. M. 5, 375.—Of stars, to set, Plin. 2, 17, 14, 72 al.3. Of localities, to retire, recede, retreat: quantum mare abscedebat,
retired
, Liv. 27, 47 fin.; so in architecture: frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio,
of the sides in the background
, Vitr. 1, 2, 2; so id. 1, 2, 7, praef. 11.4. With respect to the result, to retire, to escape: abscedere latere tecto,
to escape with a whole skin
, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 5.II. Fig., to leave off, retire, desist from, constr. with ab, the simple abl., or absol.: labor ille a vobis cito recedet, benefactum a vobis non abscedet (followed by abibit), Cato ap. Gell. 16, 1 fin.; so, cito ab eo haec ira abscedet, Ter. Hec. 5, 2, 15.— With abl. only: haec te abscedat suspicio, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 100: abscedere irrito incepto,
to desist from
, Liv. 20, 7, 1.—Absol.: aegritudo abscesserit, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 29; so, somnus, Ov. F. 3, 307: imago, Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 6: ille abscessit (sc. petitione sua),
desisted from the action
, Tac. A. 2, 34: ne quid abscederet (sc. de hereditate), Suet. Ner. 34; so, semper abscedente usufructu, Dig. 7, 1, 3, 2.