The corpus record — Latin

justifico

justifico · v. a

To act justly towards, do justice to

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Where it lives

De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

justĭfĭco — Lewis & Short

justĭfĭco, 1, v. a.justificus.

I To act justly towards, do justice to one; with simple acc. of the pers. (post-class.): justificate viduam, Tert. adv. Marc. 19.—

II To justify, make just, forgive, pardon, vindicate (post - class.): malos, Coripp. Laud. Justini jun. 2 fin.: impium, Aug. Enar. in Psa. 110, 3; Vulg. Rom. 8, 30: ut ex fide justificemur, id. Gal. 3, 24 et saep.—Hence, justĭfĭcātus, a, um, P. a., justified (eccl. Lat.): baptismate, Prud. Apoth. 881; Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 36.—Comp.: Publicanus Pharisaeo justificatior discessit, Tert. Or. 13.

In the wild

iustificatae Tertullian, De Monogamia 6
iustificata Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.38
iustificat Tertullian, De Patientia 7
iustificate Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.17
iustificati Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 10.5
iustificate Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.29

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.