Eluctor, eluctâris, eluctári. Pli. With strugling and wrastling to haue the vpper hande, or to escape away: to struggle and striue to come forth: to come foorth hardly, and with paine.Quum rot ac tam validæ eluctandæ manus essent.Liu.Eluctari per multa impedimenta.Senec.To scape and come out by force, throughe many impedimentes or lettes.In ipso fornacium ore flammæ eluctantur. Plin. The flames come violently foorth of the mouth of the fournaces, as it were striuing to get out.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-luctor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. and a. (perh. not ante-Aug.). I.Neutr., to struggle out, force one's way out: aqua omnis, Verg. G. 2, 244; so of streams, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2; Luc. 2, 219.—Trop.: ipse, compositus alias, et velut eluctantium verborum, promptius eloquebatur, i. e.
hesitating in speech
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unready
, Tac. A. 4, 31.—II.Act., to struggle out of any thing; also, to surmount a difficulty, to obtain by striving: tot ac tam validas manus, Liv. 24, 26 fin.: nives, Tac. H. 3, 59; cf.: locorum difficultates, id. Agr. 17 fin.: furorem, Stat. Ach. 1, 525 et saep.: viam ponti, Val. Fl. 8, 184.