To make dul or blunt, also to be dul or faint, as the stomacke diseased. Aciem ferri hebetare. Plin. Aciem oculorum. Plin. To hurt the eie sight. Cura tristitiæ hebetatur vino. Plin. Sorcowefull sadnesse is quailed with drincking wine. Dentem hebetase. Sil. Flatus hebératus. Plin. To asswage windinesse. Flammas hebetare. Ouid. To asswage the rage of fire. Hebetatur specolorum fulgor. Plin. The orightnesse of the glasses is dusked. Lunam conuenit vmbra terræ hebetari. Plin. All agree that the moone is darkned with the shadow of the earth. Oculos hebetat allium. Plin. Garlike hurteth the eie sight. Venena omnia hebetat oleum. Plin. Weakneth the strength of al poisons.

I. Lit.: hastas, Liv. 8, 10, 3: vulneribus suis ferrum hostium, id. 30, 35, 8: tela, Sil. 16, 105: aciem oculorum, Plin. 20, 6, 21, 47: oculos, Lact. 6, 2: visus alicui, Verg. A. 2, 605: dies hebetarat sidera, had dimmed, Ov. M. 5, 444: umbra terrae lunam hebetari, Plin. 2, 13, 10, 57; cf.: smaragdos in sole hebetari, id. 37, 5, 18, 69; 28, 7, 23, 79: auster aures hebetat, Cels. 2, 1: primores dentes mollientes aut hebetantes verba, Plin. 7, 16, 15, 70: cummium genera amaritudines hebetant, moderate, lessen, id. 24, 11, 64, 105; cf.: venena omnia (oleum), id. 23, 4, 40, 80: odor suavior e longinquo, propius admotus hebetatur, id. 21, 7, 18, 35: faba hebetare sensus existimata, id. 18, 12, 30, 118: vos mihi taurorum flammas hebetastis, quenched the fiery breath, Ov. M. 7, 210.—

II. Trop., to dull, blunt, make stupid: animo simul et corpore hebetato, Suet. Claud. 2: Lethe hebetans pectora, Ov. P. 4, 1, 17: hebetatum ingenium, Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 9: rei publicae vires hebetatae sunt, Just. 6, 8: vino tristitia et cura hebetatur, Plin. 23, 1, 22, 38.