immordeo

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

immordĕo (inm-), sum, 2, v. a. [inmordeo],

to bite into (poet. and rare; perh. only in part. perf. pass. ): labitur, immorsaque cadens obmutuit hasta, Stat. Th. 2, 628: immorso aequales videant mea vulnera collo, Prop. 3, 8 (4, 7), 21: (stomachus) pernā magis ac magis hillis Flagitat immorsus refici (= vellicatus, excitatus), excited , Hor. S. 2, 4, 61.

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