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devello

tear off

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Where it lives

Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

dē-vello — Lewis & Short

dē-vello, velli, vulsum, (

I perf. devolsit, Cat. 63, 5), 3, v. a., to pluck down, to pull or tear off (very rare; not in Cic. and Caes.): pennas, Plaut, Poen. 4, 2, 50; cf.: plumam anseribus, Fronto Ep. ad Verr. 1 fin.: plantas de matrum radice, Pall. Mart. 10, 1: effigies (sc. in Tiberim; cf. Suet. Vit. 17, and Juv. 10, 58), Tac. A. 3, 14. In an obscene sense: concubinas (i. e. depilare), Suet. Dom. 22.

Where it came from

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