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LNS

dētestor, dētestārī, dētestātus sum

de, testor

deponent verb (1^st conjugation)

To curse while calling a deity to witness, to execrate, abominate
To call to witness
To call down upon, denounce
To hate intensely, detest, abominate, abhor
to avert from one's self by entreaty, to ward off, avert, remove, to deprecate
to renounce solemnly or under oath

Abbreviations

dē-testor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a. In relig. lang. To curse while calling a deity to witness, i. e. to execrate, abominate (for syn. cf.: abominari, adversari, abhorrere, horrere, devovere, execrari): cum (te) viderunt, tamquam auspicium malum detestantur, Cic. Vatin. 16, 39: omnibus precibus detestatus Ambiorigem, * Caes. B. G. 6, 31 fin.; cf.: caput euntis hostili prece, Ov. M. 15, 505: dira exsecratio ac furiale carmen detestandae familiae stirpique compositum, Liv. 10, 41: exitum belli civilis, Cic. Phil. 8, 2 fin. et saep.

— To call to witness, = testor, obtestor: summum Jovem, deosque, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 60.

— To call down upon, denounce while invoking a deity: minas periculaque in caput eorum, Liv. 39, 10, 2: deorum iram in caput infelicis pueri, Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 6.

— To hate intensely, detest, abominate, abhor: causam auctoremque cladis, Tac. H. 2, 35 fin.: civilia arma adeo detestari, felt such abhorrence for, Suet. Oth. 10: sortem populi Romani, id. Claud. 3: viam pravam Vulg. Prov. 3, 13.

— Transf., to avert from one's self by entreaty, to ward off, avert, remove, sc. an evil from one's self or others, = deprecari, to deprecate: ut a me quandam prope justam patriae querimoniam detester ac deprecer, Cic. Cat. 1, 11: memoriam consulatus tui a republica, id. Pis. 40, 96: invidiam, id. N. D. 1, 44, 123: o di immortales, avertite ac detestamini hoc omen, id. Phil. 4, 4, 10.

— In judic. lang., to renounce solemnly or under oath: detestatum est testatione denuntiatum, Dig. 50, 16, 238; cf. ib. § 40, and detestatio, II.: Servius Sulpicius in libro de sacris detestandis, etc., Gell. 7, 12, 1.!*? In a pass. sense, Ap. Mag. p. 307, 24; August. Ep. ad Macr. 255.

—Esp., in the part. perf., detested, abominated: detestata omnia ejusmodi repudianda sunt, Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 28: bella matribus detestata, Hor. Od. 1, 1, 25.