SCRUPLE Copy link • SCRUPLE 1. s. Doubt, difficulty, dubitatio: cunctatio (a delaying): haesitatio (hesitation): scrupulus (a disquieting doubt): religio (a scruple of conscience). To make, raise, or cause a scruple, dubitationem afferre, inferre, injicere, dare; scrupulum alicui injicere, incutere: to make a scruple about anything, aliquid in religionem trahere; aliquid religioni habere: I make no scruple about it, nulla mihi religio est (Hor., Sat., 1, 9, 70). I make no scruple, have or feel no scruple in doing anything, religio mihi non est quominus, etc. (Vid: Cic., Cat., 3, 6, 15). Without any scruple (you can do so and so), sine sollicitudine religionis (Trajanus, ap. Plin., Ep., 10, 62, in.). To remove a scruple, dubitationem alicui praecidere, tollere, expellere; scrupulum alicui eximere or ex animo evellere; religionem alicui evellere; religionem alicui eximere. I have still one scruple, unus mihi restat scrupulus. I am disturbed by a scruple, scrupulus me stimulat ac pungit. There is a scruple whether or not, consultatio tenet, ne, etc. (Liv., 2, 3). If the slightest scruple should seem to exist, si tenuissimus scrupulus residere videbitur: without scruple, nulla interposita dubitatione; sine ulla dubitatione. (As a weight), scripulum or scrupulum, and sometimes scrupulus: of a scruple weighing a scruple, scripularis, scrupularis: by scruples, scripulatim, scrupulatim 2. v. dubitare: haesitare: cunctari. Vid: HESITATE.