Detestor, detestâris detestâtus sum, detestári. Pla. To abhorre: to detest: to haue in abhomination: to take earnestly to witnesse: to eschewe or put from him by words.Tanquam auspicium malum detestari aliquem.To abborre one as a token and signe of yll lucke.Exitum belli detestari.Cic.To abhorre & be sore afraide of. Detestari iram Dei in caput alicuius. Pli. iun. To wish the vengeance and wrath of God to light vpon one: to curse. Detestari Repub. nomen alicuius. Cic.To wish the name of a man from the gouernement of the common weale, as abhominable and detesiable. Detestari.Cic. Vt me iustam partiæ querimoniam detester ac deprecer. To eschewe and wish farre from me anie inst complaint, &c.Auertere & detestari. Cice. Detestari inuidiam.Cic.To detest and eschue enuie.Tellus detestanda. Sil.
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dētesto, āvi, 1, v. a. [act. collat. form of detestor], to execrate (very rare): detestabant, Amm. 26, 6, 17; v. also detestor fin.
dē-testor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a.I. In relig. lang. A.To curse while calling a deity to witness, i. e. to execrate, abominate (for syn. cf.: abominari, adversari, abhorrere, horrere, devovere, execrari): cum (te) viderunt, tamquam auspicium malum detestantur, Cic. Vatin. 16, 39: omnibus precibus detestatus Ambiorigem, Caes. B. G. 6, 31 fin.; cf.: caput euntis hostili prece, Ov. M. 15, 505: dira exsecratio ac furiale carmen detestandae familiae stirpique compositum, Liv. 10, 41: exitum belli civilis, Cic. Phil. 8, 2 fin. et saep.—b.To call to witness, = testor, obtestor: summum Jovem, deosque, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 60. —B.To call down upon, denounce while invoking a deity: minas periculaque in caput eorum, Liv. 39, 10, 2: deorum iram in caput infelicis pueri, Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 6.— C.To hate intensely, detest, abominate, abhor: causam auctoremque cladis, Tac. H. 2, 35 fin.: civilia arma adeo detestari,
felt such abhorrence for
, Suet. Oth. 10: sortem populi Romani, id. Claud. 3: viam pravam Vulg. Prov. 3, 13.—II.Transf., to avert from one's self by entreaty, to ward off, avert, remove, sc. an evil from one's self or others, = deprecari, to deprecate: ut a me quandam prope justam patriae querimoniam detester ac deprecer, Cic. Cat. 1, 11: memoriam consulatus tui a republica, id. Pis. 40, 96: invidiam, id. N. D. 1, 44, 123: o di immortales, avertite ac detestamini hoc omen, id. Phil. 4, 4, 10.—III. In judic. lang., to renounce solemnly or under oath: detestatum est testatione denuntiatum, Dig. 50, 16, 238; cf. ib. 40, and detestatio, II.: Servius Sulpicius in libro de sacris detestandis, etc., Gell. 7, 12, 1.!*? In a pass. sense, Ap. Mag. p. 307, 24; August. Ep. ad Macr. 255.—Esp., in the part. perf., detested, abominated: detestata omnia ejusmodi repudianda sunt, Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 28: bella matribus detestata, Hor. Od. 1, 1, 25.