The corpus record — Latin

offenso

offenso · v. freq. a

to strike

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Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

offenso — Lewis & Short

offenso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.1. offendo,

I to strike or dash against (not in Cic. or Caes.).

I Lit.: sponte suā offensando ut semina rerum, Lucr. 2, 1059; so id. 6, 1053: omnes offensare capita, dash their heads against the wall, Liv. 25, 37.—

II Trop., to stumble, trip, falter in speaking, Quint. 10, 7, 10.—(Offensatus, Quint. 10, 3, 20, is a false reading for offensator, q.v.).

In the wild

offensando Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1059
offensantem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.5.p3
offensantes Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.3.1
offensante Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.22.p7
offensantesque Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.7.10

Where it came from

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