ab-ōminor, ātus, 1, v. dep., to deprecate any thing as an ill omen (not in Cic.). Lit.: cum dixisset sepulcrum dirutum proram spectare, abominatus, etc., when he had spoken the words “a ruined sepulchre,” etc., wishing that this (the sepulchre, or the words spoken) might not be of evil omen, Liv. 30, 25 fin.; so also id. 6, 18, 9; Suet. Claud. 46.

—Hence: quod abominor, which may God avert, Ov. M. 9, 677; id. P. 3, 1, 105; Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 7 al.

—With inf.: haec universa habere abominabitur, Sen. Ben. 7, 8.

— In gen. (opp. to opto), to abominate, abhor, detest, Liv. 30, 30, 9; Col. 6, prooem. § 1; Quint. 4, 1, 33.

—Hence derivv., abōminan-ter, adv., abominably, detestably, Cod. Th. 3, 12, 13.

— abōminandus, a, um, P. a., abominable, Liv. 9, 38 fin.; Sen. Ben. 1, 9; Quint. 8, 4, 22; 9, 2, 80.!*? Collat. act. form abōmino, are: multam abomina, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 82.

— abōminor in pass. signif.: saevitia eorum abominaretur ab omnibus, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 791 P.

—So Part.: abominatus, abominated, accursed: Hannibal, Hor. Epod. 16, 8: semimares, Liv. 31, 12, 8: bubo funebris et maxime abominatus, Plin. 10, 12, 16.