rĕpŭdĭo — Lewis & Short
rĕpŭdĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.repudium, t. t.
A Of persons married or betrothed, to cast off, put away, divorce, repudiate (cf. reicio):
sponsas admodum adulescens duas habuit ... priorem ... virginem adhuc repudiavit,Suet. Claud. 26:
uxorem,id. Caes. 79; so id. Tib. 35 fin.:
Liviam repudiatam relegavit,id. Calig. 25:
ob hoc repudiatus,id. Gram. 3; Quint. 4, 2, 98; 8, 5, 31:
si repudiatur miles, mulier mecum perit,Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 8; cf.:
repudiatus repetor,Ter. And. 1, 5, 14:
sponsum,Suet. Caes. 21; id. Gram. 3:
(mulier marito) amatorium dedit, repudiavit,Quint. 7, 8, 2:
repudiari etiam futurum matrimonium potest,Dig. 50, 16, 191.—
B To reject, refuse to accept an inheritance:
si heres bona repudiaverit,Dig. 37, 14, 21 fin.:
fideicommissum,ib. 31, 1, 35:
hereditatem,ib. 31, 1, 77, § 31:
legatum a se,ib. 33, 5, 10:
voluntatem defuncti,ib. 32, 1, 80.—
II Transf., in gen., to reject, refuse; to scorn, disdain, repudiate (very freq. and good prose;
syn.: reprobo, aspernor, respuo): cujus vota et preces a vestris mentibus repudiare debetis,Cic. Clu. 70, 201:
consilium senatūs a re publicā,to remove, withdraw from the State, id. de Or. 3, 1, 3:
repudia istos comites,Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 30:
duces,Caes. B. C. 2, 32:
nobilitatem supplicem,Cic. Planc. 20, 50:
eloquentia haec forensis spreta a philosophis et repudiata,id. Or. 3, 13; cf.:
repudiata rejectaque legatio,id. Phil. 9, 6, 15; Quint. 3, 6, 33:
genus totum liberi populi,Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 49:
condicionem,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 54; Cic. Quint. 14, 46:
beneficium,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 11; cf.:
gratiam populi Romani,Caes. B. G. 1, 40:
consilium,Ter. And. 4, 3, 18:
legem,Cic. Lael. 25, 96:
patrocinium voluptatis (corresp. to vituperare),id. Fin. 2, 21, 67:
provinciam,id. Phil. 3, 10, 26:
opimum dictionis genus funditus,id. Or. 8, 25:
ista securitas multis locis repudianda,id. Lael. 13, 47:
iracundia omnibus in rebus repudianda,id. Off. 1, 25, 89:
virtus, quam sequitur caritas, minime repudianda est,id. Lael. 17, 61.—Hence, part.: rĕpŭdĭātus, a, um; as subst.: rĕpŭ-dĭāta, ae, f., a divorced wife:
sin autem vidua, vel repudiata,Vulg. Lev. 22, 13; id. Num. 30, 10; cf. id. Ezech. 44, 22.