Imminuo, imminuis, imminui, imminutum, pen. prod. imminuere. To diminish: to make lesse: to abate: to cut of.Dolor se imminuit.Ouid.Sorrow swaged.Imminuere & Amplisicare, contratia.Cic.To diminish and to enlarge.Imminuere authoritatem suam. Ci. To make his authoritie lesse. Violare atque Imminuere ius & officium. Cic.Imminuere laudem alicuius.Cic.Imminuere maiestatem pop. Romani. Cic.To commit treason against the people of Rome.Imminuere pudicitiam virginis.Plaut.To deslowre a maid.Imminuere summam.Cic.To debate of a summe.Imminuere de voluptate.Cic.To diminish delectation. Imminu ere caput alicui.Plaut.To breake ones heade.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
immĭnŭo (inm-), ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a. [inminuo], to lessen, diminish a thing (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf. diminuo, comminuo). I.Lit.A. In gen.: si istas exiguas copias quam minime imminueris, Cic. Fam. 3, 3, 2: pondus, Plin. 33, 3, 13, 47.—B. Pregn., to weaken, impair, enfeeble: corpus otio, animum libidinibus imminuebant, Tac. H. 2, 93; cf.: Gauda, morbis confectus, et ob eam caussam mente paululum inminuta, Sall. J. 65, 1: vires (Venus), Lucr. 5, 1017; cf. ib. 626.—In mal. part.: virginem, App. Flor. p. 350; Lact. 1, 10 fin.—II.Trop.A. In gen., to lessen, diminish, abate: aestivorum tempus comitiorum mora imminuerat, Sall. J. 44, 3: quod populi semper proprium fuit, quod nemo imminuit, nemo mutavit, Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 19: imminuitur aliquid de voluptate, id. de Or. 1, 61, 259: nihil ex consuetudine luxus atque desidiae, Suet. Ner. 42: postquam se dolor imminuit, Ov. H. 15, 113: verbum imminutum,
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, Cic. Or. 47, 157.—B. In partic., pregn., to encroach upon, to violate, injure, subvert, ruin, destroy: nullum jus tam sanctum atque integrum, quod non ejus scelus atque perfidia violarit et imminuerit, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 109: cupiditas imminuta ac debilitata, id. Phil. 12, 3, 7: bellum attenuatum atque imminutum, id. de Imp. Pomp. 11, 30: pudicitiam, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 90: auctoritatem, Cic. Att. 1, 18, 5; cf. id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, 60: jus legationis, id. ib. 2, 1, 33, 84: laudem alicujus, id. Att. 14, 17, A, 2: libertatem, id. Caecin. 12, 35: Bocchi pacem, Sall. J. 81, 4: mentes hominum (ebrietas), Gell. 15, 2, 4: Agrippa discidio domum imminuerat, Tac. A. 2, 86.—With acc. pers. only in Tac.: quamquam Augusta se violari et imminui quereretur, Tac. A. 2, 34: perculso Seneca, promptum fuit Rufum Fenium imminuere, id. ib. 14, 57.—Hence, immĭnūtus, a, um, P. a., diminished, smaller, weak: mens, Tac. A. 6, 46: modus intercalandi interdum cumulatior, interdum imminutior, Sol. 1, 44
