Insumo, insumis, pe. pro. insumpsi, insumptum, insúmere. Ge. To spend or lay out money: to beltow: to take to him.Nullus teruncius insumitur in quenquã.Cic.Ther is neuer a farthing spent on any man.Omnis cura ad speculandum hoc malum in sumitur. Plini. Al care is employed, &c.Operam insumere.Cic.To employ or bestow his labour or traualle.Operam frustr insumere. Li. To spend his labor in vaine.Sumprus in rem aliquã insumere.Cic.To bestow cost vpon. Insumo.To take to him: vt Mentes insumite dignas cœptis. Sta. Take to you courages meet for such an enterprise.Nubila insumpsere latus montis.Stat.Clowdes possessed or inuironed the side of the hil.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-sūmo, mpsi, mptum, 3, v. a., to take for any thing; hence to apply to, expend upon.I.Lit.(a).In aliquid: ut nullus teruncius insumatur in quemquam, Cic. Att. 5, 17, 2: sumptum in aliquam rem, id. Inv. 2, 38, 113: sestertios tricenos in cenam, Gell. 2, 24, 11.—(b). With dat.: paucos dies reficiendae classi, Tac. A. 2, 53.— (g). With abl.: non est melius quo insumere possis, Hor. S. 2, 2, 102.— II.Trop.A.To apply, employ, bestow: operam frustra, Liv. 10, 18: operam libellis accusatorum, Tac. A. 3, 44: vitam versibus, id. Or. 9.—(b). With in and abl.: nec in evolvenda antiquitate satis operae insumitur, Tac. Or. 29. —(g). With ad: omnis cura ad speculandum hoc malum insumitur, Plin. 9, 46, 70, 153.—B.To take to one's self, to take, assume: interficiendi domini animum, Tac. A. 14, 44: medium latus, Stat. Th. 2, 39: dignas insumite mentes Coeptibus, id. ib. 12, 643.— C.To use up, exhaust, weaken: corpus, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 2, 60: corporis virtutem, id. Acut. 2, 37, 213.