CHECK Copy link • CHECK 1. v. inhibere: cohibere: reprimere: comprimere: supprimere: sustinere: sistere (to stop; of living and running objects: inhibere, of lifeless objects in motion: currens sistitur; currus inhibetur. Döderlein’s Synonyms). To check horses, equos sustinere (opposed to agere, incitare): frenare: refrenare (to bridle; to hold in check): coercere (to restrain; hold within proper limits. etc.): obviam ire alicui rei (to meet a difficulty or danger by counter-acting measures): morae esse alicui; moram alicui or alicui rei aflerre (Cic.), inferre, interponere (Caes.): tardare, retardare (delay the execution of an action): one’s breath, animam comprimere (Ter.); spiritum retinere (Cels.., hold ones breath): a vessel, navigium inhibere (stop it): to check a sedition, uproar, etc., seditionem, motus comprimere. A marsh checked the cavalry in their pursuit of the enemy, palus equites ad insequendum hostem tardavit (Caes): to check the enemy, hostium impetum morari (Caes.), retardare, refrenare (Nep.). [Vid. CHECK, s.] To check one’s self, se sustinere, se reprimere se cohibere. To check an account, rationes contra scribere (after contrascriptor rationum, Inscript). 2. s. retardatio: retentio: inhibitio (act of holding in, delaying, etc): mora (delay). To give a check to anybody [Vid. CHECK, v.] , in mora esse or morae esse alicui; moram alicui afferre (Cic.), inferre, interponere (Caes.), facere (Liv.), objicere, offerre (Plaut.). To hold the enemy in check, hostem morari (Caes.).: efficere, ut hostis retardetur (Nep.): a progressu hostem arcere (Cic.). Loss, blow, etc., in war, detrimentum: calamitas: incommodum: clades. To receive a check, calamitatem, incommodum or detrimentum accipere (Caes.); incommodum habere or incommodo affici conflictari (Caes.). A slight check, detrimentum parvulum. To give anybody a check (in war), alicui cladem afferre or inferre; alicui detrimentum inferre: alicui detrimento esse (Caes.): alicui incommodum afferre (Caes.). If they should receive any cheek, si adversa pugna evenerit. The state would have received a severe check, magna clades atque calamitas rempublicam oppressisset (Cic.). Check on anybody for payment, perscriptio: syngiapha: also tessera nummaria (Suet., ). To pay by check, delegatione solutionem perticere (by referring one’s creditor to a third person, Sen.): solvere ab aliquo (Cic.). To give anybody a check upon another, aliquem delegare alicui (Cic.), or ad aliquem (Sen.); alicui delegare aliquem, ab quo fiet numeratio. To honor a check, delegationem recipere: to refuse to honor a check, rescribere pecuniam. In chess: check to your king, cave regi: to say check to the king, monere, ut caveatur regi. Countersign, *tessera contra scripta (e.g., at a theatre).