Abnuo, ábnuis, ábnui, abnûtum, pen. prod. abnûere. To denie or refuse properly by countenaunce or becke: to becke away: to for bidde. Abnuere, Recusare.To refuse.Bruti quoque haud abnuit cognomen.Liu.He refusen not.Omen non abnuit. Æneas.Virg.Quis talia demens abnuat?Virg.Curam pecoris abnuere. Colum. To refuse to take charge of cattell.Imperium abnuere.Liu.To refuse to obey or to be vnder ones dominion.Iussa ducis abnuere.Tacit.To dissobey the Capitaynes commaundements. Abnuere. Colum. To denie: to say no.Aliquid alicui abnuere.Cic.To denie a thing to one.Alicui de re aliqua abnuere.Salust.Recusare & abnuere.Cic.Abnuere & agnoscere opponuntur.Tacit.To denie: to acknowledge.Abnuere & concedere, contraria.Cic. Abnuere, Prohibere.Virg.To forbid to do a thing.Abnueram, bello Italiam concurrere Teucris.I forbad, &c. Locus impetum abnuit. Tac. The place letteth, that one can not: the place will not suffer.Spes hoc abnuit. Tibul. A man can not hope that.
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ab-nŭo, ŭi, ŭĭtum (hence abnŭĭturus, Sall. Fragm. 1, 37 Kritz), or ūtum, 3, v. a. and n. (abnueo, Enn. ap. Diom. p. 378 P. or Ann. v. 283 Vahl.: abnuebunt, id. ib. or Trag. v. 371 id.), lit., to refuse by a nod (cf. Nigid. ap. Gell. 10, 4 fin.); hence, to deny, refuse, to decline doing a thing, to reject.I.Lit.A. In gen. (syn. recuso; opp. concedo), constr. absol., with the acc., the inf., quin, or de.(a).Absol.: non recuso, non abnuo, Cic. Mil. 36, 100; so Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 21; id. Truc. prol. 6; Hor. S. 2, 5, 52; Tac. A. 11, 12; id. Agr. 4 al.—(b). With acc. (in Cic. only with general objects, as quid, nihil): cum intellegas, quid quisque concedat, quid abnuat, Cic. Fin. 2, 1, 3: nihil umquam abnuit meo studio voluntas tua,
refused
, id. Fat. 2, 3; so, aliquid alicui: regi pacem neque abnuere neque pollicere, Sall. J. 47 fin.: alia (opp. probo), id. ib. 83fin.: abnuere cognomen Bruti, Liv. 1, 56, 8: imperium, id. 3, 66, 3; cf.: imperium auspiciumque,
to reject
, id. 28, 27, 4: regulae rationem, Quint. 1, 6, 33: omen, Verg. A. 5, 531: aliquem comitem inceptis, Sil. 3, 110. —(g). With inf.: certare abnueo, Enn. l. l.: nec abnuebant melioribus parere, Liv. 22, 13 fin.; so id. 22, 37, 4.—With acc. and inf.: aeternam sibi naturam abnuit esse, Lucr. 3, 641; cf.: abnueret a se commissum esse facinus, Cic. Leg. 1, 14, 40; and: haud equidem abnuo egregium ducem fuisse Alexandrum, Liv. 9, 17, 5; so id. 5, 33, 4; 30, 20, 6; Quint. 5, 8, 3; 6, 2, 11 (opp. concedo); Verg. A. 10, 8 al.; cf. also: manu abnuit quidquam opis in se esse, Liv. 36, 34, 6.—Impers.: nec abnuitur ita fuisse, Liv. 3, 72, 6. —(d). With quin: non abnuere se quin cuncta mala patefierent, Tac. A. 13, 14.— (e) With de: neque illi senatus de ullo negotio abnuere audebat, Sall. J. 84, 3.B. Esp., abnuens, like the Gr. a)peipw/n, declining service, giving up (very rare): milites fessos itineris magnitudine et jam abnuentes omnia, Sall. J. 68, 3; cf.: fessos abnuentesque taedio et labore,
declining the combat
, Liv. 27, 49, 3.II.Transf., of abstract subjects, not to admit of, to be unfavorable (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quod spes abnuit, Tib. 4, 1, 25: quando impetus et subita belli locus abnueret, Tac. H. 5, 13: hoc videretur, nisi abnueret duritia, Plin. 37, 10, 54, 145.