A member, or linune: a parte of ones bodie: the fieshe that couereth the sinewes: vaines and bones of any part. In orations, a shore sentence or clause. Iners membris, Vide INERS. Artus magni membrorum. Virg. Flexus memòrorum. Quint. Bowing of linunes. Grauitas membrorum. Lucr. Abalienata membra, Vide ABALIENO. Accommoda bellis membra. Stat. Aegra membra. Ouid. Cæsa. Ouid. Affectum membrum. Celsus. A part of the bodie sicke. Candida. Ouid. Curua. Ouid. Auulsa. Virg. Debilia. Sil. Direpta membra manibus. Ouid. Discerpta membra gruis. Hora. Disiecta membra laceri corporis. Sen. Exanguia membra. Sil. Exilia. Ouid. Fessa membra diumis ministerijs. Ouid. Hispida membra. Iuuen. Implicata membra. Lucan. Immania. Ouid. Liquefacta membra. Sil. Muliebribus membris puer. Lucr. A tender childe. Procera membra. Sil. Rigenria membra fugiente vita. Lucan. Saucia membra. Ouid. Tenera. Lucr. Squallida. Lucr. Truncata. Claud. Turpia membra vdo fimo. Virg. His body fouly rayed with. Valida ac iuuenilia membra. luuenal. Velocia membra. Sil. Vieta. Horat. Viuida. Silius. Lassata membra abluere. Ouid. To wash cleane his wearie limmes. Abscinóere membra. Lucr. Languida membra cadunt. Ouid. His feeble linmies fall. Captus membris, Vide CAPIO. Componere membra, Vide COMPONO. Defessa cõponere mÊbra. Vir. To lay downe weary linunes. Correpunt membra pauote. Lucr. Viua membra dilaniat. Ouid. Dissoluuntur membra, fluúotque. Lucr. The strength of bys limmes is dissolned. Diuidi membris suis. Ouid. To be dismembred or cut limmcale. Curata membra dare sopori. Hor. After they haue refreshed themsclues to lie downe to sleepe. Placidam membris dat cura quietem. Virgil. Care maketh them sleepe quietly. Durare membra in duro opere. Lucr. Erigere membra cubili. Sil. To rise from his bed, or to sitte vp in his bedde. Pauor membra excutir. Sencc. Exprossus membris infant. Quint. A child of good feature or wel proportioned in his limmes. Irrigare alicui quietem per membra. Vir. To cast in a sleepe. Langucscunt membra. Lucr. Laxare membra quiete. Virg. To sleepe. Leuare membra baculo. Oui. To stay himselfe with a staffe. Luxuriant membra. Ouid. Membra madent vino. Plaut. Mollia membra mouere. Lucr. Incoruata membra posuere solo. Ouid. They sate downe on the grounde. Horror membra quatir. Virg. He quaked for feare. Genitalia membra recidere. Ouid. To gelde: to cutte off the genitories. Soluuntur frigore membra. Virg. His limmes were benummed with colde. Soluta languore membra. Ouid. Valens membris. Virg. Of bodie strong and lustie. Lues tabida venit membris. Virg. Vigor habilis venit membris. Virg. Dicuntur & membra in statuis: vt, Fundere membra staruæ. Quint. Membrâtim. pen. prod. Aduerbium. By euery member: limme by limme: in peeces: in shorte clauses. Membratim tractare aliquid. Plini. To handle in partes parcelles, zuery part one after an other. Generatim & Membratim, contraria. Plin. In summe, and partes or parcelies. Sensum vitalem membratim deperdere. Lucr. Incisè & membratim dicere. Cic. To speake in shorte clausi or sentences, not vsing full perlodes. Membratim & cæsim. Quint.

I. Lit.: jam membrorum, id est partium corporis, alia videntur propter eorum usum a natura esse donata, ut manus, crura, pedes, etc....alia quasi ad quendam ornatum, ut cauda pavoni, plumae versicolores columbis, viris mammae atque barba, Cic. Fin. 3, 5, 18; Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 66: defessa, Verg. G. 4, 438; Suet. Vesp. 20: hispida membra, Juv. 2, 11: membrum lacerum laesumve, Gell. 4, 2, 15: propter membrum ruptum talio, Gai. Inst. 3, 223.—

B. In partic., = membrum virile, Auct. Priap. 70, 17. So plur. membra, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 65; cf. App. M. 5, 6, p. 161; id. ib. 10, 31, p. 254; Aus. Epigr. 120, 4.—

II. Transf.

A. In gen.

1. Of inanim. and abstr. things, a part, portion, division: omnes philosophiae partes atque omnia membra, Cic. N. D. 1, 4, 9: solvere quassatae parcite membra ratis, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 2: per omnia philosophiae membra prudenter disputando currere, Amm. 16, 5, 6: eadem sunt membra in utrāque disputatione, Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 119 —

2. Of persons: Ponticus ... Bassus ... dulcia convictūs membra fuere mei, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 48: membra et partes alienae potentiae, Sen. Ep. 21, 6; cf. poet.: fluctuantia membra Libyae, Sil. 2, 310.—

B. Esp.

1. A member of the state: per multa membra civitas in unum tantum corpus redigitur, Just. 5, 10, 10: membra partesque imperii, Suet. Aug. 48: reipublicae totius membra, Amm. 18, 5, 1: urbis, id. 15, 7, 5: Achaei scilicet per civitates velut per membra divisi sunt, unum tamen corpus et unum imperium habent, Just. 34, 1, 2: corpore sic toto ac membris Roma usa. Sil. 12, 318: cur ut decisa atque avulsa a corpore membra despiciar, id. 1, 670.—

2. An apartment, chamber in a house: dormitorium membrum, a bed-chamber, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 9: domūs membra, App. M. 3, 28, p. 141; 7, 1, p. 188: modus membrorum numerusque, Col. 6, 1, 1: cubicula et ejusmodi membra, Cic. ad Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, 2.—

3. Of speech, a member or clause of a sentence: quae Graeci ko/mmata et kw=la nominant, nos recte incisa et membra dicimus, Cic. Or. 62, 211; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26.—

4. Of the Church of Christ: singuli autem alter alterius membra, Vulg. Rom. 12, 5; cf. the context: membra sumus corporis ejus, i. e. Christ's, id. Eph. 5, 30.