Declino, declinas, pen. prod. declinâre. To decline or eschue: to auoide: to turne away: to bende from.Loco mouere se & declinare.Cic.Minimo interuallo declinare.Non declinare loco aliquo.Cic.Not to goe out of a place. Declinare de via, per translationem, pro Aberrare.Cic.To goe out of the way: to erre: to do otherwise than reason is.Declinare se extra viam.Plaut.To turne out of the waye.Declinare de via dexteram.Cic.To turne somewhat out of the way on the right hand. Paulatim declinat amor.Ouid.Honest loue bendeth awaye to dishonestie by little and little.Declinat in vesperum dies. Col. It draweth towarde night.Inflammatio declinat. Cel. The impostume asswageth.Somnus declinat ocellos. Propert. He falleth a sleepe. Appetere & Declinare, contraria.Cic.To eschue or auolde: to bende from.Persequi & Declinare, contraria.Cic.Declinare proposito deflecteréque sententiam.Cic.Declinare contentiones.Cic.To eschew.Impetum alicuius tectè declinare. Cice. Declinare laqueos iudicij. Cice. A malis natura declinamus.Cic.Naturally wee are bente to eschewe euilles.Subite & declinare minas alicuius, contraria. Cice. Declinare ab religione officij.Cic.Not to doe as in honesty or conscience he should doe: to doe otherwise than in conscience he should doe.Declinare de statu.Cicer.To remitte somewhat of his constancie in behauiour: not to be constant.Declinare vitia.Cic.To eschewe.A delictis quæ parua videntur, est diligentius declinandum.Cic.We must take more heede to eschewe.Eò reuocemur, vnde huc declinauit oratio.Cic.Huc declinabam nec inuitus.Cic.I did bende my talke somwhat to this matter, and that of purpose. Nec declinatam quicquam ab aliarum ingenio vllam reperias. Tere. Ye shall not finde one that swarueth the least thing in the world from the nature of al other: they bee al of like uature. Declinat topazio in aurum. Plin. It ben deth somewhat more to golde. Declinare agmen aliquo.Liu.To remonue his armie to a place. Declinare, Vitare. Cice. Declinétque ea quæ nocitura videantur. Let him eschew.Declinare certamen, & Detrectare, pro codem ponit Liui.To refuse to fight.Declinare ictum.Liu.To steppe backe and auoide a blowe. Declinare nomina & verba. Quint. To decline nownes.
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dē-clīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [CLINO = kli/nw], orig. to bend from the straight path; to turn aside or away (freq. and class.). I.Lit.a.Act.: ego modo declinavi paullum me extra viam, Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 11; cf.: sese rectā regione viai, Lucr. 2, 250; and: se a terris omnia numina, Poët. ap. Suet. Aug. 70: lumina, Catull. 64, 91: agmen, Liv. 1, 28; 36, 23: nares in alteram partem, Cels. 8, 5.—Poet. of the eyes, to bend down, i. e. to lower, close them in sleep: nec dulci declinat lumina somno, Verg. A. 4, 185.—b.Neutr.: paulum ad dexteram de via declinavi, ut ad Pericli sepulcrum accederem, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5; id. Att. 14, 17, 2; Liv. 38, 20, 8.—So of the oblique motion of atoms (corresp. with oblique ferri): si omnes atomi declinabunt, nullae umquam cohaerescent; sive aliae declinabunt, aliae suo nutu recte ferentur, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19 sq.; cf. id. Fat. 9, 18 (preceded by cur Epicurus atomos de via deducat): quae nova causa in natura est, qua declinet atomus? 20, 46 (the reading quae declinet atomum is wrong), id. N. D. 1, 25.—II.Trop.A. In gen. a.Act., to turn aside: neque (mulierem) declinatam quicquam ab aliarum ingenio ullam reperias, who has departed, deviated, Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 3; cf.: quaedam verborum flgurae paulum figuris sententiarum declinantur, Quint. 9, 3, 88; id. 10, 3, 33: neque spe, neque metu declinatus animus, id. 12, 1, 16: Cato literas Graecas aetate jam declinata didicit,
in the decline of life
, id. 12, 11, 23. —b.Neutr., to turn aside, deviate, turn away: de via, Cic. Lael. 17; cf.: de statu suo, id. Clu. 38, 106: a religione officii, id. Verr. 2, 3, 1: a malis (opp. appetere bona), id. Tusc. 4, 6, 13: a parvis delictis diligentius, id. Off. 1, 40 fin.: aliquantulum a proposito, id. Or. 40, 138: a recto itinere (oratio), Quint. 4, 3, 14 al.: gemma paulum declinans a topazio in aurum,
passing
, Plin. 37, 8, 34, 113: ut eo revocetur unde huc declinavit oratio,
digressed
, Cic. de Or. 2, 38; cf. id. Leg. 1, 21 fin.: quantum in Italiam declinaverat belli, Liv. 28, 1: in asperam Pholoen, Hor. Od. 1, 33, 7: in pejus, Quint. 10, 2, 16: ad discendum jus, Quint. 12, 3, 9; cf. id. 7, 2, 30.—Absol.: declinasse me paululum et praesentes fluctus fugisse, Cic. Sest. 34: paulatim amor,
decreases
, Ov. M. 9, 460: dies coeperat declinare, Vulg. Luc. 9, 12. —B. In partic. grammat. t. t., to vary, inflect a part of speech. 1. In the older grammarians, of every kind of inflection (declension, conjugation, comparison, derivation, etc.), Varr. L. L. 8, 2 sq.; 10, 11 sq.; cf. also Quint. 1, 4, 22; 1, 5, 63 al. —2. In the later grammarians, to decline, in the strict sense, Charis, p. 8 sq. et al. —C.Transf., with an object denoting that from which one turns aside; to avoid, to shun (classical, most freq. in Cic.); nec satis recte (oratio) declinat impetum, nisi etiam in cedendo quid deceat intellegit, Cic. Or. 68, 228; cf., corresp. with vitare, id. Att. 8, 11, D. fin.; and: ictum, Liv. 42, 63, 4: urbem, Cic. Planc. 41: laqueos judicii, id. Mil. 15, 40: appetuntur quae secundum naturam sunt, declinantur contraria, id. N. D. 3, 13, 33: vitia, id. Off. 1, 6, 19: ea quae nocitura videantur, id. ib. 1, 4; cf. Tac. A. 13, 4: invidiam, id. H. 4, 41 fin.; Suet. Caes. 4: impudicitiam uxoris, Tac. A. 6, 51: oppida ut busta, Amm. 16, 2, 12.