Innitor, pe. pro. inniteris, pe. cor. innixus vel innisus sum, inniti, datiuo, vel accusatiuo, vel ablatiuo variè construitur. To leane vpon: to assay: to indeuour.Inniti. datiuo. Liu. Steterunt scutis innixi. They stoode leaning on their tergates.Baculo innitens.Ouid.Leaning or staiyng himselfe on.Cubito innixa. Vir. Leaning on hit elbow.Arator innixus stiuæ.Ouid. Fractæ innititur hastæ. Stat.Secreta eius innituntur illi. Va. His secret connsatles stay chic fly on him or he is the chiefe stay of. Ionixus, ablatiuo.Cic. Innixus hasta. Liu.Hacarte innixus Hercules arces attigit igneas. Hor. Innixus in humeris.Cic.Leaning on mens shoulders.Innixus in aliquem. Plin. Staiyng vpon one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-nītor, nixus or nīsus, 3, v. dep., to lean or rest upon, to support one's self by any thing. I.Lit.A. In gen.: vineis breves ad innitendum cannas circumdare, Plin. 17, 22, 35, 185. (a). With dat. and abl.: innititur hastae, Ov. M. 14, 655: fractae hastae, Stat. Th. 12, 144: scutis innixi, Caes. B. G. 2, 27: templa vastis innixa columnis, Ov. P. 3, 2, 49: arbores radicibus innixae, Plin. 16, 31, 56, 127: hasta innixus, Liv. 4, 19, 4: moderamine navis, Ov. M. 15, 726.—(b). With in and acc.: in Pansam fratrem innixus, Plin. 7, 53, 54, 182.— B. In partic., to lean upon in order to press down, to press or bear upon: elephantus lixam genu innixus, Hirt. B. Afr. 84.—II.Trop.A. In gen.: praecipuus, cui secreta imperatorum inniterentur, Tac. A. 3, 30: salutem suam incolumitati Pisonis, id. ib. 15, 60: omnia curae tutelaeque unius innixa, Quint. 6, 1, 35: tuis promissis freti et innixi, Plin. Pan. 66, 5.—B. In partic., to end, terminate: syllabae nostrae in b litteram et d innituntur, Quint. 12, 10, 32.—C. Innixum sidus, i. q. En gonasi, Avien. Arat. 205.
