praetumeo

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

prae-tŭmĕo, ēre, 2, v. n.,

to be puffed up beforehand (late Lat.).—Trop.: eloquii supercilio, Cassiod. Hist. Tripart. 1, 10; id. in Psa. 75, 12.