ăb-horrĕo — Lewis & Short
ăb-horrĕo, ui, ēre, 2, v. n. and
I a., to shrink back from a thing, to shudder at, abhor.
I Lit. (syn. aversor; rare but class.); constr. with ab or absol., sometimes with the acc. (not so in Cicero; cf.
Haase ad Reisig Vorles. p. 696): retro volgus abhorret ab hac,shrinks back from, Lucr. 1, 945; 4, 20:
omnes aspernabantur, omnes abhorrebant, etc.,Cic. Clu. 14, 41:
quid tam abhorret hilaritudo?Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 56:
pumilos atque distortos,Suet. Aug. 83; so id. Galb. 4; Vit. 10.
II Transf., in gen.
A To be averse or disinclined to a thing, not to wish it, usu. with ab:
a nuptiis,Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 92:
ab re uxoriā,id. And. 5, 1, 10;
and so often in Cic.: Caesaris a causā,Cic. Sest. 33:
a caede,id. ib. 63:
ab horum turpitudine, audaciā, sordibus,id. ib. 52, 112:
a scribendo abhorret animus,id. Att. 2, 6:
animo abhorruisse ab optimo statu civitatis,id. Phil. 7, 2:
a ceterorum consilio,Nep. Milt. 3, 5 al.
B In a yet more general sense, to be remote from an object, i. e. to vary or differ from, to be inconsistent or not to agree with (freq. and class.):
temeritas tanta, ut non procul abhorreat ab insaniā,Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:
a vulgari genere orationis atque a consuetudine communis sensus,id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:
oratio abhorrens a personā hominis gravissimi,id. Rep. 1, 15:
ab opinione tuā,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 20: Punicum abhorrens os ab Latinorum nominum prolatione, Liv. 22, 13; so id. 29, 6; 30, 44:
a fide,to be incredible, id. 9, 36:
a tuo scelere,is not connected with, Cic. Cat. 1, 7 al. —Hence, like dispar, with dat.:
tam pacatae profectioni abhorrens mos,not accordant with, Liv. 2, 14.—
2 To be free from:
Caelius longe ab istā suspicione abhorrere debet,Cic. Cael. 4.—
3 Absol.
(a) To alter:
tantum abhorret ac mutat,alters and changes, Cat. 22, 11.—
(b) To be unfit:
sin plane abhorrebit et erit absurdus,Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85; cf.:
absurdae atque abhorrentes lacrimae,Liv. 30, 44, 6; and:
carmen abhorrens et inconditum,id. 27, 37, 13.