Religo, religas, pen. corr. religâre. Colu. To bind fast: to binde harde.Classem religauit ab aggere. Vir. He fastened the ship at, &c.Funiculus puppi religatus.Cic.A cable fastned at the hinder parte of the ship.Ab humeris religatus funis. Plin. Funes religare ex arboribus. Caius. To tie cordes by trees.Ea ad maiores ramos religant. Colum. They tie them to the bigger boughes.Religetur in mali cacumine. Pli. Let it be fastned at the top of the maste.Funem reli gare in querno stipite.Ouid.Catena religari.Religare lineo funiculo. Col. To binde faste with, &c.Religatus quadrigis.Plin. iun. Religare religionibus bona alicuius.Cicer.To giue ones goodes to the honour and serutce of God.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-lĭgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.I.To bind back or behind, to bind or fasten up, to bind fast (freq. and class.). A.Lit.: aspicite (Prometheum) religatum asperis Vinctumque saxis, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 23; cf.: trahit Hectorem ad currum religatum Achillis, id. ib. 1, 44, 105; and: (Andromedam) ad duras religatam bracchia cautes Vidit, Ov. M. 4, 671; 683: manus post terga, Suet. Vit. 17: aliquem inter duos currus, Flor. 1, 3, 8: remos struppis, Liv. Andron. ap. Isid. 19, 4, 9: flavam comam, Hor. C. 1, 5, 4; cf.: religata comas in nodum, id. ib. 2, 11, 24: religata crines, id. ib. 4, 11, 5: navem ferreis manibus injectis,
fastened with grapplingirons
,
grappled
, Caes. B. C. 2, 6: transversas trabes axibus, id. ib. 2, 9, 2; cf. id. ib. 5; 2, 10: restim ad pinnam muri, Liv. 8, 16: religato pro foribus cane, Suet. Vit. 16: religatos rite videbat Carpere gramen equos, Verg. A. 9, 352: capillum in vertice, Tac. G. 38: desectam herbam,
to bind together
,
tie up
, Col. 2, 18, 5; cf.: folia lactucae, Plin. 19, 8, 39, 131: robora catenis, Luc. 2, 671: catenā religari, Ov. H. 10, 89: catenā aliquem, id. Am. 1, 6, 1; Flor. 3, 19: religavit (Raphael) illud (daemonium) in deserto, Vulg. Tob. 8, 3. —2. In partic., nautical t. t., to fasten or moor a ship to the shore: naves ad terram religare, Caes. B. C. 3, 15; Plin. Pan. 82, 2 (with revincire): ab aggere classem, Verg. A. 7, 106: litore Threïcio classem, Ov. M. 13, 439: religata in litore pinus, id. ib. 14, 248; Hor. C. 1, 32, 7; id. S. 1, 5, 19; cf.: funem (navis) in Cretam, Cat. 64, 174: ab Emathio litore funem, Luc. 7, 860: funes ex arboribus ripae, Dig. 1, 8, 5 pr.—B.Trop., to bind, fasten, chain, fetter: quae (prudentia) si extrinsecus religata pendeat, etc.,
bound to external things
, Cic. Tusc. 3, 17, 37: hoc vinculo pietatis obstricti Deo et religati, Lact. 4, 28, 3; cf. id. 4, 28, 12: dapibusque simul religataque somno agmina, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 472.— II.To unbind (only poet. and in post-class. prose): Cybele religat juga manu, Cat. 63, 84 (for which id. 63, 76: resolvens juga): vitem resolvere ac religare, Pall. 3, 13, 2.