The corpus record — Latin

dedolo

to cudgel soundly

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Where it lives

Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

dē-dŏlo — Lewis & Short

dē-dŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to hew away, to hew smooth, to hew: partes putres pedamentorum, Col. 4, 26, 1: ridicas, id. 11, 2, 12: arborem, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188: vasculum crystallo dedolatum, smoothed, inlaid, App. M. 6, p. 178: ossa fracta fabrili manu, Mart. 11, 84.—Jocosely: senem Exossabo dein dedolabo assulatim viscera, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 106.—Hence, in familiar lang., to cudgel soundly: fustium quoque crebris ictibus dedolabar, App. M. 7, p. 195; and in an obscene sense, id. ib. 9, p. 220, 30.

In the wild

dedolabat Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.7
dedolat Martial, Epigrammata 11.84.6
dedolaret Apuleius, Apologia 29
dedolatum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.13
dedolabar Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.17
dedolandae Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.26.1

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