Enodo, enódas pe. pro. enodâre. Non. To vnknit, or cut awaye the knottes. Enodare dicuntur arbores, quum podi eis amputantur. Ca. Col. When men cut the knottes from trees. Enodare.Cic.To deciare: to make manifest: to explicate or dissolne.Enodare & explicare. Accius. Voluntatem contrariæ legis enodare. Author ad Her. To expound and declare the meaning of the contrary law.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-nōdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to free from knots.I.Lit.: vitem, Cato, R. R. 33, 1; 44; Col. 5, 6, 14.—B.Transf.: arcum, i. e.
to deprive of the string
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to unstring
, App. M. 5, p. 172.—II.Trop., of speech, to free from obscurity, i. e. to make plain, to explain, elucidate, unfold, declare (mostly ante-class.; syn.: expedio, extrico, enucleo, expono, interpretor, explano, explico): quod quaero abs te enoda, et qui sis explica, Att. ap. Non. 15, 7; cf. Enn. Pac., Turp., and Varr. ib. 11 sq.: nomina, Cic. N. D. 3, 24, 62: praecepta, id. Inv. 2, 2, 6; id. Leg. 1, 9, 26; Auct. Her. 2, 10 fin.: plerosque juris laqueos, Gell. 13, 10, 1.— Hence, ēnōdātē, adv. (acc. to II.), clearly, plainly: narrare, Cic. Inv. 1, 21fin.— Comp.: explicare, id. Fin. 5, 9fin.—Sup.: expedire, Aug. Conf. 5, 6.