DISMOUNT Copy link • DISMOUNT 1. TRANS., To throw off a horse, aliquem de equo dejicere or deturbare; aliquem excutere or effundere (of the horse itself). To throw from an elevation, dejicere aliquid loco, de and e loco. Of a piece of ordnance, hostium tormenta ludificari (to make them useless; after Liv.; quibus ea, quae hostes ingenti mole agerent, ludificaretur, 24, 34). [Bau. gives frangere pedamentum or pegma tormentorum. 2. INTR., To alight from a horse, ex equo descendere; descendere or desilire ex equis (of cavalry, in order to fight on foot): to make the cavalry dismount (to fight on foot), equitatum or equitem deducere ad pedes. To descend from an elevation; Vid: To DESCEND.