enodis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ēnōdis, e, adj. [nodus], free from knots, without knots (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Prop.: trunci, Verg. G. 2, 78; cf. cedri, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 360: nitor arborum, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 14: harundo, Mart. Cap. 9, § 906.—

B Transf., smooth , supple : artus ( al. arcus) laterum, Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 361.—

II Trop., of speech, clear , plain , intelligible : elegi, Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 2; Ambros. Ep. 1, 12; id. in Luc. 7, § 136 init.

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