Elido, elîdis, pen. prod. elísi. elísum, elídere. ex E præpositione, & Lædo, lædis, compositum. Plaut.To hit againste a thing: to breake or burst out: to presse or squize out: to exclude: to strangle: to kill.Caput pecudis saxo elisit.Liu.He hitte the beast on the heade with a stone.Elidunt fœtus sues. Columel. Sowes onerlay and squize to death their pigges.Fauces elidere.Ouid.To strangle or throatle one.Heibas elidere. Varro. To stampe or pounde.Elidere ignem è silice. Plin. To strike fire out of a flint.Elidere claua leonem. Suet. To kil with a club.Elidere naues constratas. Cæs. To dash and breake.Elidere omnes neruos virtutis.Cic.Ignis elisit nubes.Stat.It lightned.Elidere alicui oculos.Plaut.To digge out ones eyes.Pactum. Paulus. To breake a couenannt or bargaine.Sibilum. Cels. To cause a whistling or hissing.Sonum elidere. Plin. To make a sowne or noise by dashing one thing against another.Spiritum elidere. Celsus. To stoppe the breath, to cause one to lacke winde.Spumam elidere.Virg.To raise.Stirpes ægritudinis elidere. Ci. To cutte or breake cleane away the braunches of sorrowe or griefe of minde.Victum hostem elidere. Curt. To kil. Elidi & exanimari. Suet. To be squized to death & killed.Elidi ægritudinibus.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-līdo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [laedo]. I.To knock, strike, or dash out, to tear out, to force out, squeeze out.A.Lit.: aurigam e curru, Cic. Rep. 2, 41: oculos, Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 45; Verg. A. 8, 261: ignem velut e silice, Plin. 11, 37, 86, 214; cf.: flammas ex sese, id. 18, 35, 84, 358: ignes nubibus, Ov. M. 6, 696: aërem lituis, Luc. 7, 476: partum, i. e.
to produce abortion
, Cels. 1, 7; Plin. 25, 3, 7, 25: litteras,
to strike out by syncope
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to elide
, Gell. 5, 12, 5: vina praelis, i. e.
to press out
, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73; cf. herbam, Ov. F. 4, 371: corpora equorum eodem elisa, i. e. ad litus ejecta, Tac. A. 2, 24.—B.Trop.: animam alicui, Lucil. ap. Non. 291, 32: (imago) recta retrorsum Sic eliditur, ut, etc.,
, Cels. 4, 4, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 6: magnas sententias, to send forth, utter (the fig. being that of a cloud discharging itself), Quint. 2, 11, 7 Spald.—II.To break or dash to pieces, to shatter, to crush to death.A.Lit.: talos alicui, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 12: tuum caput, id. Poen. 2, 46; Liv. 21, 45: fauces,
to strangle
, Ov. M. 12, 142: naves, Caes. B. C. 3, 27, 2: aliquem stipite, Curt. 9, 7 fin.: draconem pondere, Plin. 8, 11, 11, 32: geminos angues (Hercules), i. e.
to strangle
, Verg. A. 8, 289; cf. infantes, Flor. 3, 3, 17 al.—B.Trop., to break down, destroy: (poetae) nervos omnes virtutis elidunt, Cic. Tusc. 2, 11 fin.; cf.: aegritudine elidi, id. ib. 5, 6, 16: prius pactum per posterius, i. e.