FORBEAR Copy link • FORBEARTRANS. and INTRANS. To cease from anything, desist, desinere aliquid, or with infinitive (to desist from anything, opposed to coepisse): desistere aliqua re, ab or de aliqua re, or with infinitive: absistere aliqua re, or with infinitive (to leave off; absistere not in Cic., according to Görenz, Cic., Legg., 1, 13, 39): mittere, with infinitive (to give over, to leave off; e.g., requesting or begging, mitto orare; also, desisto rogare; absisto petere). Sometimes parcere (as, parce, sis, fidem ac jura belli jactare, Liv.). [Vid: To CEASE.] To avoid, Vid: Reason teaches us what to do and what to forbear, ratio docet, quid faciendum fugiendumque sit. To abstain from, abstinere or se abstinere (a) re: se continere a re (to keep back from anything): temperare sibi, quominus etc.: I cannot forbear, temperare mihi non possum, quominus etc.; sibi temperare or se continere non posse, quin; a se impetrare non posse, quin, etc.: to forbear shedding tears, lacrimas tenere; temperare a lacrimis (Verg., Aen., 2, 8; in Liv., 30, 20, temperare, lacrimis = to moderate one’s tears). To pause, Vid: Forbearing, indulgens: patiens: mitis. To be forbear toward anybody, indulgentia tractare or indulgenter habere aliquem: to be too forbearing, nimis or nimium indulgere alicui.