Reprimo, reprimis, penu. corr repressi, repressum, reprimere. Plau. To let that a thing be not done: to represse: to stoppe: to keepe vnder by force: to appease.Reprime iracundiam. Teren. Be not so angrie: pacifie your selfe.Reprimam iam me, nec insequar longius.Cic.I will nowe stay my selfe, &c.Coercere & reprimere.Cic.Hæc Reipubli. pestis paulisper reprimi, non in perpetuum comprimi potest. Cic.Bella nascentia repressit. Claud. Conatus hominum reprimere. Ci. To represse and stay the indenours of men.Consuetudinem peccandi reprimere.Cic.To stay or stop a custome to offende.Cursum reprimere. Cæs. To stay his course: to stop.Dextram reprimere.Virg.To holde or stay his hande.Ensem reprimere.Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-prĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3, v. a., topress back, keep back; to check, curb, restrain (class., partic. in the trop. sense; cf.: repello, refuto). I.Lit.: illa praedicta Veientium, si lacus Albanus redundasset, Romam periturum; si repressus esset, Veios, Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69: amnem, Flor. 1, 1, 3: fontes, Stat. Th. 5, 522: alvum, Cels. 2, 12; cf.: medicamenta reprimentia, id. 6, 6, 2; 6, 16, 2 al.: vulvas procidentes, Plin. 35, 15, 51, 182: sudorem, id. 20, 13, 51, 142: labra, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 16: dextram, Verg. A. 12, 939: ensem, Stat. Th. 11, 309: retro pedem cum voce, Verg. A. 2, 378.— Of personal objects: represso jam Lucterio et remoto,
forced back
, Caes. B. G. 7, 8; cf.: aliquem repressum, non oppressum relinquere, Cic. Mur. 15, 32.— II.Trop. (the figure borrowed from the restraining, confining of a stream), to check, curb, restrain, limit, confine, repress: difficilem quandam temperantiam postulant in eo, quod semel admissum coërceri reprimique non potest, Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 2; cf.: furorem exsultantem reprimere, id. Sest. 44, 95: intellego hanc rei publicae pestem paulisper reprimi, non in perpetuum comprimi posse, id. Cat. 1, 12, 30: memoria, non exstincta, sed repressa vetustate,
suppressed
, id. Cael. 30, 71: impetus hostium repressos esse intellegunt ac retardatos, id. Imp. Pomp. 5, 13: iis regios spiritus repressit, Nep. Dion, 5, 5: animi incitationem atque alacritatem non reprimere sed augere, Caes. B. C. 3, 92 fin.: cursum, id. ib. 3, 93: itinera, Cic. Att. 10, 9: fugam hostium, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: iracundiam, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 8; 9: nunc reprimam susceptam objurgationem, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 9 (15): illius conatus, id. Verr. 2, 2, 26, 64: consuetudinem peccandi, id. ib. 2, 2, 22, 53: fletum, id. Rep. 6, 15, 15: gemitum, Ov. M. 9, 163 et saep.: odium suum a corpore alicujus, Cic. Sest. 55, 117: famam, id. Phil. 11, 10, 23: ferocitatem, id. Off. 2, 11, 40: impetum, id. Leg. 3, 12, 27.— Poet., with inf.: ast occasus ubi tempusve audere repressit, the bold undertaking, Enn. ap. Tert. p. 178 Müll. (Ann. v. 292 Vahl.).— Of personal objects: quem neque fides, neque jusjurandum ... Repressit,
has restrained
, Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 9: me ... horum aspectus in ipso cursu orationis repressit, Cic. Sest. 69, 144: quem L. Murena repressum magnā ex parte, non oppressum reliquit, id. Mur. 15, 32: reprimam me, ne aegre quicquam ex me audias, I will control myself, check or restrain myself, Ter. Hec. 5, 1, 38; so, me, id. Heaut. 1, 2, 25; Cic. Leg. 2, 17, 44: hac repressi castigatione in proelium redeunt, Just. 1, 6, 15; cf. mid.: vix reprimor, quin te manere jubeam, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 58: se ab omni contagione vitiorum, Plin. Pan. 83, 2.— Hence, adv.: rĕpressē, with restraint, constrainedly: repressius peccare, Gell. 12, 11, 5: repressius actum est, Amm. 29, 2, 12.