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LNS

incestō, incestāre, incestāvī, -

incestus

verb (1^st conjugation)

to pollute, defile
to dishonor, defile

Abbreviations

incesto, āvi, 1, v. a. incestus, to pollute, defile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). In gen.: totamque incestat funere classem, Verg. A. 6, 150: aras, Stat. S. 5, 5, 4: diem (Furiae), id. Th. 11, 120; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 267.

— In partic., to dishonor, defile with lust: puellam, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 136: filiam, Tac. A. 6, 19: se, Suet. Tib. 43: thalamos novercae, Verg. A. 10, 389.