Laxo, laxas, laxâre. Cic.To loose or set at libertie: to release: to open: to make larger.Arua laxant sinus.Virg. Laxare Virg.To set at libertie.Laxari vinculis.Cic.To loose out of bands & set at libertie.Astringere & laxare, contraria.Cic.To tie hard & to loose.Laxare animum laboribus. Liuius. To recreate his minde from labour.Annona haud multum laxauerat.Liu.The price of vittaile was not much fallen.Quies laxauerat artus.Virg.Catenas laxate Lucan.To loose the chaines.Corpora laxantur rugis.Ouidius.Their bodies hath skinne flagging and wrinkled.Laxare curas somno. Virg To refresh his carefull minde with sleepe.Curas laxare in otia. Claud. Ferrum laxatur ad vsus in numeros.Stat.Frænos laxat populis furentibus. Luc. He letteth the raging people haue bridle at will and do what they list.Humus die laxatur.Ouid. Iras laxare. Stat.Membra laxare quiete.Virg.Monera bacchi laxarunt duram mentem. Sil. Wine made him mery and pleasant.Laxare sese ab angustijs in latitudiuem. Plin. From a narow bottome to grow broader toward the toppe or end. Plin. 21. cap. 5. Laxare sese molestijs. Luceius ad Ciceronem. To ridde and dispatch him selfe of trouble.Tempus laxare.Senec.To prolong the time.Vincula laxare.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
laxo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (rarely n.; v. I. B. 2. b. and II. B. b. infra) [id.], to stretch out, extend, to make wide or roomy, to expand. I.Lit.: forum, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 8: manipulos,
to open the ranks
, Caes. B. G. 2, 25: lilium ab angustiis in latitudinem paulatim se laxans, Plin. 21, 5, 11, 22.—B.Transf.1.To open, undo, unloose (syn. solvo): vincula epistolae laxavit, Nep. Paus. 4: nodos Herculeos, Luc. 4, 632: ubi dolor vocem laxaverat,
, Quint. 10, 5, 22: memoriae inhaeret fldelius, quod nulla scribendi securitate laxatur, id. 10, 6, 2: rarescit multo laxatus vulnere miles,
weakened
, Sil. 17, 422.—To lay open, disclose, reveal (poet.): fata latentia laxa, Stat. Achill. 1, 508.—(b).To reduce the price of: annonam, Liv. 2, 34, 12; so neutr., to lessen, fall in price: annona laxaverat, Liv. 26, 20.—laxātus, a, um, P. a., spread out, separated, extended, wide. A.Lit.: custodiae, i. e.