v. uti aliqua re: usurpare aliquid: adhibere aliquid [SYN. in USE.] To employ anything in any way, adhibere aliquid alicui rei or in re, or ad rem (to use it for any definite purpose): collocare in re: impendere in or ad aliquid: conferre ad aliquid (of expending what belongs to us upon any object). To employ remedies, adhibere remedia morbis; care, industry, etc., in any matter, diligentiam adhibere, industriam locare, studium collocare in re; much thought and labor upon anything, magnum studium et multam operam conferre ad aliquid; labor, etc., in vain, operam frustra consumere; operam perdere, profundere ac perdere. I have employed all my labor to no purpose, oleum et operam perdidi (Prov.): to employ one’s self in anything, se dare alicui rei (e.g., historiae): to employ one’s time in any pursuit, tempus conterere or consumere in re: to employ one’s time well, tempus bene locare or collocare; unprofitably, tempus frustra conterere: to employ a physician, medico uti or medicum adhibere (sc. morbo): to employ a word, verbo uti (☞ not verbum usurpare or adhibere): employ a word correctly, verbum opportune proprieque collocare: to employ a word in such a sense, subjicere sententiam vocabulo; vocabulo aliquid significare, declarare; in a rare sense, verbum doctiuscule ponere. Cic. employs the word in the opposite meaning, contra valet, cum Cic. dicit, etc. To employ one’s money, pecuniam occupare; in any way, in aliqua re (e.g., in pecore; but fenore without in). To employ anybody for any purpose, alicujus opera uti ad aliquid or in re; aliquo adjutore uti in re; uti in re: to employ laborers, homines in operas mittere: conducere operas (to hire them): to employ (= hire) anybody to do anything, conducere aliquem ad rem faciendam. To be employed about anything, in aliqua re versari (later writers circa aliquam rem versari); in re occupatum esse; intentum esse alicui rei aliquid mihi est in manibus.