Infringo, infringis, infrégi, pe. pro. infractum, infringere Pli. To breake to pecees: to abate: to viuitnifh: to difcourage.Lilia infringere. Ouiu. Lingua infringitur. Lucr. He cannot speake for feare.Lumbos & latus infregi liminibus. Hor. Vestes infringere, Ouid.To reare garmentes.Infringere aliquem per translarionem.Cicer.To abate his couragetto make him stoupe or bowe.Animos infringere.Liui.To viscoutagr: to abate their coucage.Colaphum infringere.Terent.To giue ablow or bore on the eare.Conatus aduersariorum infringere. Cæsar. To stop or let % endeuoure or enterprise of out euimies: to disapoint their purpose.Deos infringere humili precatu. Sta. To ouercome the gods with humvle prater.Difficultatem montis infringere. Col. To breake or ease the stipenes of the hil.Dignitatem alicuius infringere.Cic.To diminish ones dignitfe: to appaire.Ius infringere. Tac. To abate or diminish right or authoritie.Spem infringere.Cic.To put out of hope: to discourage.Vim militum infringere. Cæsar.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-fringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. [infrango], to break off, to break, bruise, crack.I.Lit.: infractis omnibus hastis, Liv. 40, 40, 7: ut si quis violas riguove papavera in horto Liliaque infringat, Ov. M. 10, 191: genibusque tumens infringitur unda, Val. Fl. 5, 412: manus, to snap or crack one's fingers, Petr. 17: articulos, Quint. 11, 3, 158: latus liminibus, to bruise one's side by lying on the threshold, Hor. Epod. 11, 22: infractus remus, appearing broken, in consequence of the refraction of the rays in the water, Cic. Ac. 2, 25; cf.: infracti radii resiliunt, Plin. 2, 38, 38, 103: ossa infracta extrahere, id. 23, 7, 63, 119.—B.Transf., to strike one thing against another: digitos citharae, to strike or play upon the lute, Stat. Ach. 1, 575: alicui colaphum,