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deformo1

shape; to form, fashion; to design, delineate, describe

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 1 · 60.24/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 3 · 3.99/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Architectura 14 · 2.43/10k
Pro M. Caelio 2 · 2.36/10k
Metamorphoses 10 · 1.87/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k

Densest 12 of 66 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dē-formo — Lewis & Short

dē-formo, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to bring into form or shape; to form, fashion; to design, delineate, describe (class.).

I Lit.: areas, Cato R. R. 161; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 10: marmora prima manu, Quint. 5, 11, 30: non flosculos sed certos ac deformatos fructus ostenderat, full-formed, perfect, id. 6 prooem. § 9: tragicae (scenae) deformantur columnis et fastigiis et signis, are delineated, represented, Vitr. 5, 8; cf.: operis speciem exemplaribus pictis, to represent in outline, to sketch, id. 1, 1.—

II Trop.: quae ita a fortuna deformata sunt, ut tamen a natura inchoata compareant, Cic. Sull. 26, 73; cf. Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 11: ille, quem supra deformavi, have depicted, described, Cic. Caecin. 5, 14; Sen. Ben. 7, 2: ministratio deformata litteris, Vulg. 2 Cor. 3, 7.

2. dē-formo — Lewis & Short

dē-formo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.forma; cf. deformis,

I to bring out of shape; to deform, disfigure; to spoil, mar (class.).

I Lit.: deformatus corpore, fractus animo, Cic. Att. 2, 21, 3 sq.; cf.: aerumnis deformatus, Sall. J. 14, 7: vultum macies deformat, Verg. G. 4, 254: membra veneno, Sil. 2, 707: capillos tonsura, Ov. A. A. 1, 517; cf.: canitiem multo pulvere, Verg. A. 10, 844 (for which, id. ib. 12, 611, turpare; and Catull. 64, 224; and Ov. M. 8, 530, foedare): parietes nudos ac deformatos reliquit, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 55; cf. Liv. 37, 3: patriam turpissimis incendiis et ruinis, Auct. B. Alex. 24, 3; cf. Italiam, Auct. (Cicero?) ap. Quint. 9, 3, 31.—

II Trop., to mar, disgrace, dishonor: quae accusatores deformandi hujus causa dixerunt, Cic. Cael. 2; cf.: (rusticana illa parsimonia) deformata atque ornamentis omnibus spoliata, id. Quint. 30, 92: ordinem prava lectione (senatus), Liv. 9, 30: victoriam clade, id. 33, 36 fin.; cf. id. 3, 71: multa bona uno vitio, id. 30, 14 fin.: orationem (with lacerare), Quint. 10, 7, 32: domum, Verg. A. 12, 805.

In the wild

deformavit Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.71.1
deformatam Cicero, Pro L. Murena 88
deformem Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 6.p2
deformavit Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.9
deformata Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 p37
deformem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.15

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