The corpus record — Latin

impio

impio · v. a

to render impious

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Where it lives

Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

What it meant

impĭo — Lewis & Short

impĭo (inp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.impius,

I to render impious or sinful, to stain or defile with sin, to pollute (ante- and postclass.): si erga parentem aut deos me impiavi, Plaut. Rud. 1, 3, 8: impias, ere, te! oratorem verberas, id. Poen. 1, 2, 173: cor coinquinatum vitiis, Prud. Hymn. Ant. Somn. 53: cruore humano aspersus atque impiatus, App. M. 1, p. 110; cf.: reus tot caedibus impiatus, id. ib. 3, p. 131: thalamos tanto facinore, Sen. Hippol. 1185: oculos, Pacat. Pan. Th. 43.—Pass. impers.: toties Romanis impiatum est, quoties triumphatum, Minuc. Fel. Oct. 25.

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