The corpus record — Latin

repulso

to drive back

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k

What it meant

rĕ-pulso — Lewis & Short

rĕ-pulso, āre, 1,

I v. freq. [id.], to drive back or beat back again, to repel again and again.

I Lit.: civitas eloquiis caelestibus magis quam corporis voluptatibus hostiles impetus repulsare consueta, Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 22, § 37 fin.—

II Transf.: colles verba repulsantes, re-echoing, Lucr. 4, 579.—

III Trop.: vera repulsans pectus dicta, Lucr. 4, 914.

In the wild

repulsantes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.579
repulsanti Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.914

Where it came from

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