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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• REFUSE
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  • v. To decline accepting, abnuere: renuere (PROP., by shaking the head): recusare (to refuse, especially for some reason): repudiare (to disdain, despise, scorn): deponere (to decline): deprecari (to excuse one’s self): detrectare (to endeavor to withdraw from a thing): contemnere, aspernari, respuere (to reject with contempt): fastidire (to refuse haughtily): to refuse an office, munus or provinciam recusare; honores, munus deprecari: to refuse offices in the state, imperia non accipere; honores deprecari: to refuse a wife with a large dowry, uxorem cum grandi dote recusare: to refuse an inheritance, hereditatem repudiare; also, hereditatem adire or cernere nolle (not to enter upon it). To refuse one’s friendship, amicitiam alicujus recusare: to refuse a triumph, triumphum deponere (Liv., 2, 47).
  • To deny a request, negare aliquid; recusare aliquid or de re (for sufficient reasons): renuere aliquid (by gestures, etc.); also, by nolle with an infinitive (to be unwilling): to refuse a request, petenti alicui aliquid denegare, petenti alicui deesse, preces alicujus repudiare: to refuse in part, subnegare aliquid: to refuse courteously, belle negare: to refuse positively or decidedly, praecise negare; sine ulla exceptione, or plane, praecidere: to refuse to believe anything, alicui rei fidem abrogare (Cic.).
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  • s. PROP., Shreds, waste, etc., ramentum (from metals, skins, etc.; by filing, or rubbing): scrobis or scrobs (from wood, metals; by sawing, filing, boring): intertrimentum, retrimentum (by melting): recisamentum (chips of wood, etc.).
  • Figuratively, The worst of anything, offscourivg, purgamentum (e.g., servorum; urbis, Curt., 6, 11, 2, and 2, 10, 7): sentina (qu., the sink; canaille): quisquiliae (qu., the sweepings: all of an entire class of bad or worthless persons): homo ad extremum perditus, homo despicatissimus (a very depraved and most contemptible individual): the refuse of the people, perditissima et faex populi.
3. adj., abjectus (worthless): vilis (mean): malus (bad): rejectus, rejiciendus (cast away, or fit only to be cast away, Cic.).