Immineo, immines, penult. cor. ímminni, imminêre. ab In & Maneo compositum. Cicero. To hang or houer ouer ready to fall: to be at hand: to be like to come to passe ere it be long: to take heede or espte: to be nigh at: to stande by.Mors propter incertos casus quotidie imminet.Cic.Death, through vncertaine chances is euery day at hand, or hangeth euery day ouer our heades.Impendere & imminere.Cic.Instare & imminere. Cæs. To be very nie and at hand.Imminent insortunas nostras.Cicer.They seeke occaston to spoile and robbe vs.Imminebat in occasionem opprimendi ducis exercitusque.Liui.He spied or watched for oportunitie to destroy bathe captaine and armie.Imminet bellum ab Tarquinijs, Liui.We shall very shortely haue warre with the Tarquinians.Imminere sibi putat periculum.Plin. iun.Imminet his aer.Ouid.The element of aire is immediatelye next abone them.Imminere animis in propinquam spem. Liuius. To desire in minde to enioy that they hope for shortly.Imminere exitio alterius. Oui. To be ready to stea the other.Imminent duo reges toti Asiæ. Ci. Two kings seeke meanes and occasions to subdue all Asia to them.Rebus imminere. Tac. To seeke or spy occasion to attaine the imperiall dominion and gouernement.Alieno imminere.Senec.To couet and seeke to haue another mans goodes.Imperio imminere. Cicero. To couet and seeke to attaine the empire.Ex omnibus partibus Siciliæ imminere.Cic. Imminere.Liu.To watche and espie.Fama autem erat defectioni campanorum imminentes admoturos castra. Liuins. That they watching and lookyng for the yeelding vp of Campaine, woulde remooue campe thither.Deditioni imminere.To seeke and spie opportunity to yeeld.Imminens Dario. Curtius. Speeding to assaile Darins.Emptioni imminere. Tranq. To conet and seeke greedily to buie: to houer oner a thing to buie it.Imminer occasioni alloquendi regem. Curt. It is at hande alway seeking occasion to spealte with the king.Immines annotator conuiuis. Plini. iun. Thou watchest and notest what men say at the table.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
immĭnĕo (inm-), ēre, v. n. [in-mineo], to project over or towards a thing, to bend or lean towards, to hang down over, overhang (syn. impendeo). I.Lit. (mostly poet.): collis plurimus urbi Imminet,
commands
, Verg. A. 1, 420; cf.: imminens prope ipsis moenibus tumulus, Liv. 29, 35, 7: imminens villae tua pinus esto, Hor. C. 3, 22, 5: candida populus antro Imminet, Verg. E. 9, 41: aër his, Ov. M. 1, 52: caelumque quod imminet orbi, id. ib. 2, 7: scopulus aequoribus, id. ib. 4, 525: apex collis subjectis arvis, id. ib. 7, 779: nemus desuper, Verg. A. 1, 165: arbos, Ov. M. 4, 459: imminet e celsis audentius improba muris Virgo, Val. Fl. 6, 681; Quint. 11, 3, 130: choros ducit Venus imminente luna,
shining overhead
, Hor. C. 1, 4, 5: cum ageretur togata, simulans, caterva tota clarissima concentione in ore impuri hominis imminens contionata est: Huic vitae tuae, etc., bending or turning towards, Cic. Sest. 55, 118; cf.: gestu omni imminenti,
bent towards him
, id. de Or. 2, 55, 225.—B.Transf., to be near to a thing, to touch on, border upon.1. In gen. (rare): imminet hic, sequiturque parem, similisque tenenti Non tenet, Ov. M. 7, 785: tergo fugacis, id. ib. 1, 542: carcer imminens foro,
adjoining
, Liv. 1, 33, 8: imminentia muro aedificia, id. 2, 33, 7.—2. In partic. (like impendere and instare), in an inimical sense, to threaten, menace, by nearness or commanding position (class.): nimis imminebat propter propinquitatem Aegina Piraeeo, Cic. Off. 3, 11, 46; cf.: Carthago imminere jam fructuosissimis insulis populi Romani videbatur, id. Agr. 2, 32, 87: certior sum factus, Parthos ... Ciliciae magis imminere, id. Att. 5, 20, 2: imminent duo reges toti Asiae, id. de Imp. Pomp. 5, 12: circum insulas Italiae inminentes, Liv. 21, 49, 1: Mithridates Italiae quoque, Vell. 2, 18, 4: Parthi Latio, Hor. C. 1, 12, 53: Germaniae et Britanniae, Suet. Calig. 19: bello subegit gentem rebus populi Romani imminentem, Cic. Rep. 2, 20: instabat agmen Caesaris atque universum imminebat, Caes. B. G. 1, 80 fin.: imbrium divina avis imminentŭm, Hor. C. 3, 27, 10: turris ingens inminebat, Liv. 21, 7, 7; 21, 11, 10: inminentes tumuli, id. 3, 7, 2. —II.Trop. (class.). A.To strive eagerly ofter a thing, to be eager for, to long for, be intent upon: hujus mendicitas aviditate conjuncta in nostras fortunas imminebat, Cic. Phil. 5, 7, 20; Liv. 30, 28, 9: in alterius ducis exercitusque opprimendi occasionem imminebat, id. 25, 20, 5: huc imminet: om nes Dirigit huc sensus, Verg. Cul. 89: alieno imminere, Sen. Ep. 2 fin.: rebus, Tac. A. 16, 14: quod imminere emptioni publicanos videbat, Suet. Aug. 24: peritus rerum popularium imminensque ei potestati, Liv. 3, 51, 9: spei majoris honoris, id. 4, 25, 9: occasioni alloquendi regem, Curt. 5, 11: exitio conjugis, Ov. M. 1, 146: Verres avaritia semper hiante atque imminenti fuit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, 134.—B.Transf. (acc. to I. B.), to be near at hand, to impend.1. In gen.: sunt qui ea, quae quotidie imminent, non videant, Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 30: mors, quae propter incertos casus quotidie imminet, id. Tusc. 1, 38, 91.—2. In partic., to threaten by nearness, to be imminent: periculum, quod imminere ipsi portenderetur, Suet. Claud. 29: periculum ambobus, id. Tit. 9: imminentes undique insidiae, id. Caes. 86: discrimina undique, id. Tib. 25: summum discrimen, Quint. 8, 4, 22: bellum, id. 12, 1, 43: taedio praesentium et imminentium metu, Suet. Vit. 15.