To cast or shake of or downe: to remoode: to examine or discusse. Discutere lateritium morum. Cæs. Tribus arietibus aliquantum muri discussit. Hee bet downe. Liu. Caput discutere. Sil. To dash in peeces. Tempora vituli lactentis discuslit malleus. Ouid. Discutere, per translationÊ. To take or put away vt, Discutit ebrietatem porrus. Plin. Putteth away drunkennes. Aduocationem aliquorum discutere manibus, ferro, lapidibus. Cic. To driue away with fistes, swordes and stones. Discussa est illa caligo, qum paulò antè dixi. C. That darkenes is put away. Captiones discutere. Cic. To dissolue captious doubrs. Tristes cogitationes. Cels. To put away heauy thoughtes. Cunctationeem. Asinius Pollio ad CiceronÊ. To put away al delay. Fastidium discutere. Plin. To put away lothsomnes. Febrim. Cels. To driue away an ague. Horrorem febris. Cels. Malum. Cels. Metum. Plin. Morbum. Cels. To put away a sicknes. Nubila vultu discutit Mercurius. Stat. Draue away clowdes. Nausea discutitur. Col. Periculum discutere & comprimere consilio. Cic. Somnum sibi discutere lympha pura. Propert. To put away sleepe, by washing his eyes with water. Tristitiam discutere. Plin. To shake away sadues. Discutere, Verbum medicorum proprium. Cels. To resolue and make to consume away by the pores.

I. In gen.: dentes, Lucil. ap. Non. 455, 18: deum delubra, Lucr. 6, 418; cf.: columna rostrata tota ad imum fulmine discussa est, Liv. 42, 20: ne saxa ex catapultis lateritium discuterent, Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 3; cf.: aliquantum muri tribus arietibus, Liv. 21, 12: rostro (navis) discusso, shattered, Auct. B. Alex. 46, 2; cf.: tempora cava ictu, Ov. M. 2, 625: ora saxo, id. ib. 4, 519: percussam aquam, Plin. 28, 8, 29, 118: nubes, Ov. M. 15, 70: discussae jubae capiti, Verg. A. 9, 810 et saep.—

II. In partic.

A. In medic. lang., to scatter, disperse ( = digerere), Cels. 2, 17; 3, 15; Scrib. Comp. 43; Plin. 30, 15, 47, 135 et saep. —

B. Pregn., to break up, scatter, disperse, dissipate.

1. Lit. (rarely): illos coetus, Liv. 2, 28; cf.: Boeoticum consilium, id. 42, 44: sole orto est discussa (caligo), id. 29, 27: caligo, Cic. Phil. 12, 2, 5; cf. umbras (sol), Verg. G. 3, 357; id. A. 12, 669: discussa nox, Luc. 5, 700.—Rarely with pers. objects: Cato discutit Etruscos, Gabinius Marsos, etc., routs, subdues, Flor. 3, 18, 13; cf.: hostiles turmae discussae, Amm. 25, 1.—Far more freq. and class.,

2. Trop.: terrorem animi tenebrasque, to disperse, dispel, Lucr. 1, 148; 2, 61 al.; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 57: quod rem totam discusseram, had frustrated, brought to naught, id. Q. Fr. 2, 12; so freq.: rem, Liv. 34, 56; 39, 10; Suet. Dom. 2 al.: discutere et comprimere periculum consilio, Cic. Mur. 39, 84; so, periculum, Liv. 2, 52; Front. Strat. 2, 11, 4: captiones (shortly before: dissolvere interrogationes), Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 46: omnem ejus cunctationem, Asin. Pollio ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 33, 2: disceptationem, Liv. 38, 13: crimen alicujus, Quint. 4, 2, 18: famam, Tac. H. 2, 9: fidem, Luc. 1, 119: consilia hostium, Front. Strat. 4, 7, 31: seditionem, id. ib. 1, 9, 2; Vell. 2, 81: bellum (with sepelire), id. 2, 75: nefas, Flor. 3, 18, 9 et saep. —Hence, discussē, adv., only comp., minutely, accurately: explorare discussius, Mart. Cap. 9, 891.!*? For the meaning to investigate, discuss (lit., to separate mentally, distinguish, as in disputare, discernere, etc.), which prevails in the post-class. derivatives: discussio, discussor, and discusse; as also in the Romance: discutere, discussare, discussione; discuter, discussion, etc., there appear to be no examples in the literary language.