Intermorior, intermòreris pen. cor. intermortuns sum, intermori. Plini. To perith or die vtterly: to die as a thing is in doing: to be lost. cast away, or nothing esteemed.Intermortuæ conciones.Cicer.Feeble orations made to the people wythout spirite or life.Si nullum officium tuum apud me intermoritutum existimas. Bythinicus ad Ciceronem. If you be perswaded that no pleasure that you do me, shal be lost or forgotten.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
inter-mŏrĭor, mortuus sum, 3, v. dep.I.To die in secret, perish unobserved, to die off, fall to decay (not in Cic. or Cæs.), Cato, R. R. 161, 3: radices intermoriuntur, Plin. 21, 18, 69, 114: ignis, Curt. 6, 6, 31: civitas, Liv. 34, 49.— II.Trop.A.To faint away, to swoon: ex profluvio sanguinis intermorientes vino reficiendi sunt, Cels. 5, 26, 25.—B. Of roads, to come to an end, stop: pars (viarum) sine ullo exitu intermoriuntur, Dig. 43, 7, 3, 2. — C.To be neglected: nullum officium tuum apud me intermoriturum existimas, Bith. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 16.—Hence, intermortŭus, a, um, P. a., dead, faint, lifeless, powerless.A.Lit.: in ipsa contione intermortuus haud multo post exspiravit, Liv. 37, 53, 10: diu prope intermortuus jacuit, Suet. Ner. 42.— B.Trop.: gemmae jactatae in ignem, velut intermortuae, exstinguuntur, lose their lustre, Plin. 37, 7, 27, 99: contiones, Cic. Mil. 5, 12: mores boni plerique omnes jam sunt intermortui, Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 7: Catilinae reliquiae, Cic. Pis. 7 fin.: memoria generis sui, id. Mur. 7, 16 fin.