Desido, desídis, pe. prod desédi, (nam præteritum Sedeo mutuatur, teste Valla) desídere, pe. cor. Idem quod sedere, sed. cÛ motu. Cic.To sinke downe: to settle: to sit downe: to go to sit: to lighte downe: to asswage or fall lower: to chinke or gape.Terra desedit.Cicer.The earth gaped or went asunder: or it sanke.Hiatu aliquo desidere.Val. Flac.To sinke downe in a greate gaping of the earth.Desidunt nares. Cels. The nostrils fall.Desidit tumor. Cels. The swelling falleth or asswageth.Vada desidunt.Stat.Desídens. pe. pro. Particip. vt Desidentes mores. Liui.Maners falling in decay.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-sĭdĕo, sēdi, 2, v. n. [sedeo], to remain or continue sitting, to sit long; and with the accessory idea of inactivity, to sit idle, to remain inactive (rare; not in Cic.). I. In gen.: tam diu Ibi desidere neque redire filium, Plaut. Bac. 2, 3, 4; id. Ps. 4, 4, 7: frustra ibi totum desedi diem, Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 2: aquila ramis, Phaedr. 2, 4, 21; cf.: amoenioribus locis, Quint. 5, 8, 1: apud Nicomedem, Suet. Caes. 2: in aliquo spectaculo, Sen. Ep. 7: in discrimine sociorum, Suet. Caes. 4.—II. In partic., to go to stool, Cels. 2, 7; 2, 12fin.; 4, 18.
dē-sīdo, sēdi (de-sīdi, Cic. l. l. infra, Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 39, 7), 3, v. n., v. consido. —Of inanimate things, esp. of places, to sink, fall, or settle down. I. Prop.: tantos terrae motus factos esse, ut multa oppida corruerint, multis locis labes factae sint terraeque desiderint, Cic. Div. 1, 35 fin.; 1, 43, 97; Liv. 32, 9; and poet. of the apparent sinking of mountains to one flying aloft: Gargara desidunt surgenti, Stat. Th. 1, 549: ovum inane natat, plenum desidit, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 11; Just. 4, 1, 10: ex urina quod desidit album est,
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, Cels. 2, 7: tumor ex toto desidit, id. 7, 18. — II.Trop., to deteriorate, degenerate: desidentes mores, Liv. prooem. 9.