Definition of dimoveo
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Orthography ID = 2017391
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LNS
dīmoveō, dīmovēre, dīmōvī, dīmōtus
dimoveo
verb (2nd conjugation)
  1. To move asunder, to part, put asunder, separate, divide
  2. to separate from each other, to scatter, disperse, drive away, dismiss
  3. To separate, to remove
  4. To move to and fro, to put in motion
Abbreviations
dī-moveo, ōvi, ōtum (DISMOTUM, v. infra), 2, v. a. (in MSS. and edd. often confounded with demoveo, q. v.; not freq. before the Aug. per.; not in Caes. and Quint.; perh. not in Cic., where demovere appears everywhere to be the better reading). To move asunder, to part, put asunder, separate, divide: terram aratro, Verg. G. 2, 513; cf.: glebas aratro, Ov. M. 5, 341: aera (c. c. dispellere umbras), Verg. A. 5, 839; cf. auras, id. ib. 9, 645: cinerem foco, Ov. M. 8, 642: undas, Lucr. 6, 891; Ov. M. 4, 708; cf. aquas, id. H. 18, 80; 19, 48: rubum, Hor. C. 1, 23, 7.

—Poet.: ubi sol radiis terram dimovit abortus (preceded by: ubi roriferis terram nox obruit umbris), cleaves the earth, lays it open, Lucr. 6, 869.

— Transf. Of a multitude of persons or things, to separate from each other, to scatter, disperse, drive away, dismiss: humentem umbram polo, Verg. A. 3, 589; 4, 7; cf.: gelidam umbram caelo, id. ib. 11, 210: obstantes propinquos, Hor. C. 3, 5, 51: turbam, Tac. H. 3, 31; 80; Suet. Galb. 19; cf.: dimotis omnibus, Tac. H. 2, 49; cf.: VTEI EA BACANALIA SEI QVA SVNT ... DISMOTA SIENT, i. e. be dissolved, abolished, S. C. de Bacchan. fin.

— To separate from something, to remove. Lit.: quos (equites) spes societatis a plebe dimoverat, Sall. J. 42, 1; Plin. 8, 7, 7, ยง 23: dimovit perfregitque custodias Poena, Plin. Pan. 49: parietes (al. demotis), Tac. A. 6, 24: plagulas (lecticae), Suet. Tit. 10 al.

— Trop.: gaudentem patrios findere sarculo Numquam dimoveas, ut, etc., thou canst never entice away, in order to, etc., Hor. C. 1, 1, 13 (al. demo-).

— To move to and fro, to put in motion (cf. dimitto, no. I.

—so perh. only in Celsus): superiores partes, Cels. 3, 27, 3: manus, id. 2, 14 fin.: se inambulatione levi, id. 4, 24 al.
 
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