Labefacio, labéfacis, pen. corr. labeféci, pen. prod. labefactum, labefácere. Ter. To breake: to destroy: to make weake or feeble: to make ready to fall.-omnes dentes labefecit mihi.Terent.He hath made all the teeth in my head loose.Labefacere aliquem.Cic.To feare one from his purpose: to make him chaunge his minde.In omnem partem labefacere aliquid.Ouid.To pull & shake a thing on euery side to make it lose.Contagione cæteros labefacere. Col. To infect.Labefacere fidem suam. Suet. To loose his credite: to become bankrupt.Labefacere. Lucret. To make feable or weake. vt Membravoluptatis dum vi labefacta liquescant. Lucr.
Labefacto, labefactas, labefactâre, Frequentatiuum, Idem significans quod Labcfacere. To corrupt: to destroie: to vndo: to subuert: to appaire: to make feeble: to cast downe.Labefactare & Sustentare, siue Restituere, contraria.Cic.Labefactare & peruertere.Cic.Labefactare sigoum.Cic.To wagge the Image and make it ready to fall: to subuert or cast downe.Labefactare atque oppugnare cõmoda alicuius.Cic.To hinder, and ail that he can to be against ones commodities.Labefactare aratores. & penitus euertere. Ci. Greatly to hinder and vtterly to vndoe husband men.Labefactare fidem suam, aut alterius, pretio. Li. With briberie to corrupt. &c. Vide FIDES. Labefactare opinionem.Cic.To confute an opinion, & bring it out of credite.Labefactare & euertere Rempub.Cic.To destroie and subuert the common weale.Labefactare vitas hominum.Cic. Labefactare aliquem.Cic.To deterre or feare one from his purpose: to make him change his minde.Animam labefactare. Lucret. To corrupt.Labefactare aliquem atque infirmare.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăbĕfăcĭo, fēci, factum (labefactarier, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 5), 3, v. a.; pass.: lăbĕfīo, factus, fieri [labo-facio], to cause to totter, to shake, loosen, to make ready to fall (Cic. uses only labefactus). I.Lit.: dentes alicui, Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 36: partem muri, Caes. B. C. 2, 22: labefactae aedes, Tac. A. 1, 75: labefacta ictibus arbor Corruit, Ov. M. 8, 776; id. ib. 3, 69: charta (i. e. epistola) a vinclis non labefacta suis,
loosened, opened
, id. P. 3, 7, 6: munimenta incussu arietis labefieri, Sen. Const. Sap. 6.—Poet.: ignes labefacti aëre multo,
weakened
, Lucr. 5, 653: membra voluptatis dum vi labefacta liquescunt, id. 4, 1108: calor labefacta per ossa cucurrit, Verg. A. 8, 390.—II.Trop.A.To cause to waver, to shake a person in his mind, principles, or fidelity: aliquem, Laber. ap. Macr. S. 2, 7: quem nulla umquam vis, nullae minae, nulla invidia labefecit, Cic. Sest. 47, 101. primores classiariorum, to shake their fidelity, excite them to mutiny, Tac. A. 15, 51: sic animus vario labefactus vulnere nutat, Ov. M. 10, 375; cf. in Greek construction: magno animum labefactus amore,
shaken, disquieted
, Verg. A. 4, 395. —B.To shake, weaken; to overthrow, ruin, destroy: haec (res publica) jam labefacta, Cic. Har. Resp. 27, 60: quo, per contumeliam consulum, jura plebis labefacta essent, Liv. 3, 64: nihil hunc amicitia Sejani, sed labefacit haud minus ad exitia Macronis odium, Tac. A. 6, 29 (35): si priorem aetate et jam labefactum demovisset, id. ib. 4, 60: ne quis contagione ceteros labefaciat, Col. 6, 5, 1; cf. Tac. H. 2, 93: fidem, to shake or weaken one's credit, Suet. Vesp. 4.