Descisco, descíscis, descíui, descîtom, pe. pr. descíscere, Ex De & Scisco compositum. To leaue: to forsake and goe to an other: to rebel.A Latinis ad Romanos desciuit.Liu.He forsooke the Latines and went to the Romaines.Desciscere Pop. Romano ad Illergetes. Liu.Ab excitata fortuna ad inclinatam & propè iacentem desciscere.Cic.To forsake one in flourishing prosperitie, and goe to him that is almost ouerthrowne.Desciscere consuetudine parentum.Plin. iun.To leaue the fashion of his auncetonres.A natura.Cic.To alter from his owne nature: to doe against his nature.Ab opinione alterius. Gel. To forsake an other mans opiniõl to reuolt fromA Republica.Cic.To forsake.A se.Cic.To leaue his old fashion and maner of liuing: to chaunge: to be a channgeling.Ab societate.Liu.A veritate.Cic.To forsake the truth: to reuolt from.A vita.Cic.To dy.Desciscere apertè.Liu.Humidum solum desciscit in pratum. Plin. A moist grounde is turned into a medow.Apes descinere fauis. Claud. Descîtum, pe. pro. Impersonale passiuum. Liu. Quorum de sententia maximè descitum Romanis constabat. From whose opinion the Romaines especially reuolted.Descobinatus.Lame: maimed: hurt.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-scisco, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 3, v. n., orig. a publicist's t. t. to free one's self from a connection with any one, to withdraw, leave, revolt from, = sciscendo deficere; and with an indication of the terminus, to desert to, go over to any one (class. prose). I. Prop.: multae longinquiores civitates ab Afranio desciscunt, Caes. B. C. 1, 60 fin.; so, ab aliquo, id. ib. 2, 32, 2; Cic. Phil. 11, 9, 21; Liv. 6, 36; Nep. Alc. 5, 1; id. Dat. 5, 5; Just. 5, 1 fin. et saep.: ad aliquem (opp. a nobis deficere), Liv. 31, 7; cf.: Praeneste ab Latinis ad Romanos descivit, id. 2, 19; and simply: ad aliquem, id. 26, 21; Front. Strat. 4, 3, 14 al.; cf. pass. impers.: quibus invitis descitum ad Samnites erat, Liv. 9, 16; and Flor. 3, 5, 6.—Absol.: cum Fidenae aperte descissent, Liv. 1, 27; 21, 19; Tac. H. 1, 31; Suet. Caes. 68; Nep. Tim. 3, 1; id. Ham. 2, 2; Front. Strat. 1, 8, 6: Stat. Th. 2, 311 al.—II.Transf. beyond the political sphere, to depart, deviate, withdraw from a person or thing; to fall off from, be unfaithful to: a nobis desciscere quaeres?Lucr. 1, 104: a se ipse, Cic. Att. 2, 4, 2: si Cicero a Demosthene paulum in hac parte descivit, Quint. 9, 4, 146: cur Zeno ab hac antiqua institutione desciverit, Cic. Fin. 4, 8; so, a pristina causa, id. Fam. 1, 9, 17 Orell. N. cr.: a veritate, id. Ac. 2, 15: a natura, id. Tusc. 3, 2: a disciplina, Vell. 2, 81: a virtute, id. 2, 1: a consuetudine parentum, Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 4 et saep.: a vita,
to separate, sever one's self
, Cic. Fin. 3, 18, 61 (opp. manere in vita).—Pass. impers.: praecipiti cursu a virtute descitum, ad vitia transcursum, Vell. 2, 1.—Stating the terminus, to fall off to, decline to; to degenerate into: ab excitata fortuna ad inclinatam et prope jacentem, Cic. Fam. 2, 16; cf.: ad saevitiam, ad cupiditatem, Suet. Dom. 10: in regem (i. e. to degenerate, be transformed), Flor. 4, 3: in monstrum, id. 4, 11.—B. Of subjects not personal: quis ignorat et eloquentiam et ceteras artes descivisse ab ista vetere gloria, Tac. Or. 28: (vitis) gracili arvo non desciscit,