rimosus

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

rīmōsus, a, um, adj. [rima], full of cracks, chinks, or fissures (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

I Lit.: fores, Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 16: cymba, Verg. A. 6, 414: aedificium (with fissum), Col. 1, 5, 10: vasa, Juv. 3, 270.— Comp. : pulmo, Gell. 17, 11, 1.—

II Trop.: quae rimosā bene deponuntur in aure, i. e. that keeps nothing secret , Hor. S. 2, 6, 46: nihil in eā (animā) rimosum est ac remissum, Ambros. Cant. Cantic. 1, § 52.

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