The corpus record — Latin

depulsio

depulsio · f

A driving off, driving away, repelling, warding off

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Where it lives

De Inventione 14 · 4.23/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Institutio Oratoria 13 · 0.76/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Philippicae 1 · 0.19/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

dēpulsĭo — Lewis & Short

dēpulsĭo, ōnis, f.depello.

I A driving off, driving away, repelling, warding off.

A In gen.: depulsio mali, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 41: doloris, id. ib. 5, 7, 17: servitutis, id. Phil. 8, 4, 12.—

B Esp. in rhetor., a defence against a charge, Cic. Inv. 2, 26, 79; 1, 10, 13; Cels. ap. Quint. 3, 6, 13; Quint. ib. § 17 al.—*

II A lowering, sinking down of the eyes: luminum, Cic. Univ. 14, 42.

Where it came from

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