destitution Copy link Outline 1. ĕgestas (a condition involving disgrace; as in the case of one who has wasted his substance)2. ĭnŏpia (any want or scarcity)3. mendīcĭtas4. sōlĭtūdo (of those who are left without any helper or supporter) • destitution: 1. ĕgestas (a condition involving disgrace; as in the case of one who has wasted his substance): that poverty, or rather d. and beggary, ista paupertas vel potius e. ac mendicitas, Cic.: to live in d., vitam degere in e., Cic. 2. ĭnŏpia (any want or scarcity): d. on the part of the Rhodians, Rhodiorum in., Cic.: to sink into shameful d., ad pudendam in. delabi, Tac.: to bring any one to d., in. alicui facere (afferre), Tac.: v. want. 3. mendīcĭtas: v. beggary. 4. sōlĭtūdo (of those who are left without any helper or supporter): Cic. (N.B. Not destitutio, which is disappointment, abandonment.)