Extenuo, extenuas, extenuare. To minishe or make little: to eleuate: to ertenuate: to make leane. vt, Extenuare in puluerem inutilem. Plin. To breake into small and vnprositable dust or pouder.Extenuare & Adaugere, contraria.Cic.Extenuare aciem Liu.To sette the souldiours in aray farre one from an other.Vehementer causam extenuare. Author ad Heren. To diminish and make a matter lesse than it is: to extenuate.Extenuare census cuiusque ciuis.Cicer.To set euerie Citizen at a lower summe in cessing.Extenuatur cibus dentibus. Cicero. The meate is wrought or chawed with the teeth.Extenuare corpus, Plinius.To make the bodie leane or slender.Crimen.Cic.To exenuate an offeuce and make it lesse than it is.Famam belli.Liu.Mala.Ouid.Extenuare & diluere molestias.Cicer.To extenuate and put away griefe.Extenuatur spes & euanescit.Cicer.Hope decayeth and vanisheth.Extenuare verbis bellicas laudes, aut munus aliquod.Cic.To extenuate with wordes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-tĕnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to make thin, fine, or small, to thin, reduce, diminish (class.; syn.: attenuo, minuo; opp. augeo, amplifico). I.Lit.: lignum falce, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 6: aër extenuatus sublime fertur,
rarefied
, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: dentibus extenuatur et molitur cibus, id. ib. 2, 54, 134: in pulverem extenuari, Plin. 18, 16, 43, 148: in aquas, Ov. M. 5, 429: mediam aciem, Liv. 5, 38, 2; 31, 21, 14: in Piceno lapidibus pluisse et Caere sortes extenuatas,
diminished
, id. 21, 62, 5 Drak. (for which, shortly after: attenuatae sortes; cf. also id. 22, 1, 11).—B. In partic., in medic. lang., to diminish, reduce, weaken, alleviate a disease: pituitam, Cels. 6, 6, 8: destillationes, Plin. 21, 21, 89, 155: albugines, id. 29, 6, 38, 127: raucitatem, id. 20, 6, 23, 50: scabiem, id. 32, 10, 51, 140 et saep.—II.Trop., to diminish, lessen, weaken: neque verbis auget suum munus, sed etiam extenuat, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70: locupletissimi cujusque census extenuarant, tenuissimi auxerant,
had made too small
, id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, 138: spes nostra extenuatur et evanescit, id. Att. 3, 13, 1: quae cogitatio molestias extenuat et diluit, id. Tusc. 3, 16, 34: crimen, id. Verr. 2, 5, 40, 108: famam belli, Liv. 5, 37, 3: extenua forti mala corde ferendo, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 57: curas mora longa, id. P. 1, 3, 26: vires, Hor. S. 1, 10, 14 et saep.—Hence, extĕnŭātus, a, um, P. a., thinned, weakened, weak.A.Lit.: (copiolae meae) sunt extenuatissimae, very much thinned, reduced, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2.—B.Trop.: ratio, Auct. Her. 2, 24, 37.
