Dirimo, dírimis pe. cor. dirémi, penul. prod. diremptum, dirímere, ex Di vel Dis, & Emo, emis compositum. To break or leaue off: to let aparte: to depart: to sinish or ende.Dirimere atque distrahere.Cic.To diuide and part.Actionem dirimere. Pli. iun. To interrupt or break off ones action.AffinitatÊ Claudius diremit. Tac. Claudius brake affinitse.Arma dirimere. Lucan. To depart those that fight.Bellum sanguine.Virg.Certamina.Ouid.To parte them that contende.Charitatem dirimere, & Dirimere veterem coniunctionem cum aliquo.Cic.To breake loue and olde friendship.Colloquium. Cæs. To breake off the communication.Coniunctionem ciuium.Cic.To breake the society and loue of countreymen.Consilium.Salust.To breake vp or dissolue the counsaile.Controuersiam. Cice. To determine the controuersie and agree the parties.Iras & altercationes.Liu.Litem.Ouid.To make an end of a matter in sute.Pacem alicuius.Cic.Prælium. Cæs. To part two armies fighting.Prælia voce diremit.Virg.Res dirimenda alicuius arbitrio.Ouid.The matter must be determined by some arbitour.Rem susceptam dirimere.Cic.To interrupt a matter begun.Rixam.Plaut.To appease men chiding: to end the brawle.Sententias.Plin. iun.To distinct opinions.Simultates.Liu.To make men agreed.Societatem humani generis.Cic.To breake the felowship.Coire societatem cum aliquo & Dirimere, contraria.Cicer.Societatem officiorum dirimere.Cic.Dirimere tempus, & diffindere diem, cognata sunt verba, vide DIFFINDO. Dirimuntur oppida vnius diei itinere.Plin. iun.Those townes be distant one daies iourney, or be one daies iourney asunder.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dĭrĭmo, ēmi, emptum (perf. dirempsi, cited as error, Charis. 220 P.), 3, v. a. [disĕmo, like diribeo, from dis-habeo], to take apart; to part, separate, divide (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense—cf.: findo, scindo, divello, separo, sejungo, segrego, secerno). I.Lit.: dirimi corpus distrahive, Cic. N. D. 3, 12; cf. Lucr. 6, 1075: Tiberis Veientem agrum a Crustumino dirimens, Plin. 3, 5, 9, 53; cf.: castris Ilerdam, Luc. 4, 33: sontes justis (Minos), Claud. ap. Rufin. 2, 477: oppida nostra unius diei itinere dirimuntur,
are separated from each other
, Plin. Ep. 6, 8, 2; cf.: urbs Vulturno flumine dirempta, Liv. 22, 15; and: dirempta mari gens, Plin. Pan. 32; and absol.: dirimente amne, Liv. 42, 39 et saep.—Poet., of cutting through the waves in a ship, Stat. Th. 5, 482.II.Trop.A.To break off, interrupt, to disturb, put off, delay (the fig. is taken from combatants who are parted asunder; transferred, like the opp. committere, to things; cf.: dirimere infestas acies, dirimere iras, Liv. 1, 13): proelium tandem diremit nox, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 99; so, proelium, Caes. B. C. 1, 40 fin.; Sall. J. 60 fin.; Liv. 37, 32; Verg. A. 5, 467 al.; cf. Plin. Ep. 4, 9, 9: pugnam, Liv. 27, 13: bellum, id. 27, 30; 40, 52; Verg. A. 12, 79: certamina, Ov. M. 5, 314 et saep.: controversiam, i. e.
to adjust, compose
, Cic. Off. 3, 33, 119: seditionem, Front. Strat. 1, 8, 6: litem, Ov. M. 1, 21: rem arbitrio, id. F. 6, 98 et saep.; also, to separate, dissolve, break off a connection: conjunctionem civium, Cic. Off. 3, 5, 23: societatem, id. Sull. 2, 6; Liv. 8, 23: nuptias, Suet. Caes. 43: affinitatem, Tac. A. 12, 4: amicitias, id. ib. 6, 29; cf. Cic. Lael. 10, 34: caritatem quae est inter natos et parentes, id. ib. 8, 27: pacem, Liv. 9, 8; Quint. 2, 16, 7: conubium, Liv. 4, 6 et saep.—So too, to interrupt, disturb, break up a conversation, deliberation, etc.: colloquium, Caes. B. G. 1, 46, 4: sermonem, Cic. Rep. 1, 11: concilia populi, Liv. 1, 36 fin.: comitia, id. 40, 59 al.; cf. absol.: actum est eo die nihil: nox diremit, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 2.—B. In gen., to destroy, frustrate, bring to naught: natura animaï morte dirempta, Lucr. 1, 114: auspicium, Liv. 8, 23 fin.; cf.: rem susceptam, Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 31: dirimere tempus et proferre diem, id. Div. 1, 39, 85: ea res consilium diremit, Sall. C. 18fin.— Absnl., to dissuade, to be unfavorable: dirimen tibus auspicibus, Amm. 14, 10, 9.