affront (v.) Copy link Outline I. To face, to encounter, q. v.II. To insult openly1. contŭmēliā afficio, etc.2. sūgillo, 1 (not in Cic.) • affront (v.): I. To face, to encounter, q. v. II. To insult openly: 1. contŭmēliā afficio, etc.: v. to insult. 2. sūgillo, 1 (not in Cic.): the men were a.'d, viri sugillati sunt, Liv.: Sulla was a.'d by his rejection when a candidate for the praetorship, Sulla repulsa praeturae sugillatus est, Val. Max.: v. affront, to insult.
affront (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. contŭmēlĭa2. sūgillātĭo (rare) • affront (subs.): Open insult: 1. contŭmēlĭa: to receive an a., c. accipere, Caes.: to cast an a. upon any one, c. in aliquem jacere, Cic.: to put an a. upon any one, alicui c. imponere, Cic.: to expose oneself to an a., praebere ad c. os, Liv.: v. insult. 2. sūgillātĭo (rare): Liv.: Plin.
AFFRONT Copy link • AFFRONT 1. Meet or go to meet, occurrere (obviam): offendere aliquem; incidere alicui or in aliquem (by accident): obviam ire alicui (to go to meet). Vid: MEET. Meet in a hostile manner, etc., occurrere, obviam ire (general term): se offerre alicui rei (e.g., periculis): resistere; confidenter resistere. Offer an insult to, contumeliam alicui imponere: aliquem contumelia insequi: contumeliis insectari: maledictis vexare (to insult with insolent words): sugillare (affront scornfully, contemptuously): offendere aliquem (to affront, displease; whether intentionally or not): aliquem ignominia afficere, ignominiam alicui imponere, injungere (of gross insults, causing public disgrace). To be affronted, ignominia or contumelia affici: offendi (to feel affronted). To affront with words, verbis or voce vulnerare, violare, contumeliam alicui dicere. To feel affronted, injuriam sibi lactam putare: at anything, aliquid in or ad contumeliam accipere: *aliqua re se laesum or violatum putare. 2. contumelia (a wrong done to one’s honor): offensio (a state of mortified feeling; but also the act that causes it): injuria (an affront felt to be a wrong): opprobrium (affront conveyed by reproachful words). To look upon anything as an affront, aliquid in or ad contumeliam accipere: ignominiae loco ferre aliquid: ignominiae or probro habere aliquid. To put an affront on anybody, contumeliam alicui imponere. Vid. AFFRONT, v., ATTACK, Vid.