dash (v.) Copy link Outline A. Trans.I. To strike or hurl with violenceII. To baffle, disconcert (rare)III. To mingleB. Intrans. • dash (v.): A. Trans.: I. To strike or hurl with violence: when some prep. or phrase is usually attached; as, to d. down, in pieces, etc., v. foll. artt. II. To baffle, disconcert (rare): as, "to d. maturest counsels," *consilia circumspectissima conturbare, ad irritum redigere: how my hopes have been d.'d, quanta de spe decidi, Ter.: v. to disappoint, frustrate. III. To mingle: misceo, immisceo: v. to mix, alloy (II.). B. Intrans.: to rush; move along with noise and violence: fĕror, ruo: v. to rush; and foll. artt.
dash (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Collision1. conflictio (a dashing together)2. percussus, ūsII. Rush, onsetIII. In abstr. senseIV. A mark in writingV. A trace. Phr. • dash (subs.): I. Collision: 1. conflictio (a dashing together): the d. of two bodies together, duorum corporum inter se c., Quint. 2. percussus, ūs: rocks are hollowed by the constant d. of waters, crebro p. saxa cavantur aquis, Ov.: v. shock, collision. II. Rush, onset: chiefly in phr., to make a d. at, invŏlo, 1: they made an unexpected d. at the camp, improvisi castra involavere, Tac. H. 4, 33: also expr. by impetus: as, the enemy made a sudden d., hostes impetu facto, etc., Caes.: v. charge. III. In abstr. sense: impetuosity, "élan": Phr.: the Gauls have plenty of d. little stability, *Gallis mobilitatis atque impetus satis, stabilitatis parum, cf. Caes. B. G. 4, 33; *satis alacres sunt ad impetus faciendos, ad sustinendos autem parum stabiles. IV. A mark in writing: nŏta: v. mark, stroke. V. A trace. Phr.: to qualify vinegar with a d. of honey, acetum melle temperare, Plin.: paleness with a d. of violet, violâ tinctus pallor, Hor.: with a d. of melancholy, subtristis, Ter.: there is a d. of bitterness (in all), surgit amari aliquid, Lucr. 4, 1129.
DASH Copy link • DASH 1. TRANS. Strike or knock against, offendere aliquid ad aliquid (unintentionally; e.g., one’s head against the door, caput ad fores; one’s foot against a stone, pedem ad lapidem): aliquid illidere or impingere alicui rei (purposely; illidere, referring to the injury received; impingere, to the violence of the shock; one’s head against the door, caput foribus illidere; one’s head violently against the wall, caput parieti ingenti impetu impingere): allidere (to dash anything against anything; rare, but classical: pars ad scopulos allisa, Caes.): affligere (to strike down; PROP., and figuratively; opposed to excitare; also to dash against; e.g., affligere navem ad scopulos, Cic.): to dash one’s self against anything, impingere se in aliquid (e.g., in columnas, Sen., ): offendere aliquid; illidi or impingi alicui rei: incutere aliquid alicui rei (to strike it against it; e.g., pedem terras [ = to stamp on it], Quint., pollicem limini cubiculi, Plin.). to dash one’s fist into anybody, impingere pugnum alicui (Plaut.). to dash anybody’s brains out, caput elidere (e.g., saxo, Liv., 21, 45); alicujus cerebrum or caput comminuere (prce-classical); excutere cerebrum alicui (Plaut.). cerebrum effringere (Verg.). [☞ OBS. Liv., 8, 6; lapsus per gradus, capite graviter offenso, ita impact us est saxo, ut sopiretur, shows that impingere, may be used in the passive without implying intention]. To dash the ships one against another, inter se navigia collidere (Curt.): to dash a cup from anybody’s hands, excutere poculum e manibus (Persius). To dash to pieces, confringere: effringere (break to pieces): discutere (by a violent blow, separating the parts of a structure; e.g., columnam; lateritium; aliquantum muri): contundere (to pound to pieces, contusi ac debilitati inter saxa rupesque, Liv., 21, 40). To be dashed to pieces (of ships), elidi et naufragio interire (Caes., B. C. . 3, 27, very rare). To sprinkle with anything; e.g., water, aspergere conspergere: respergere. To mingle anything with anything, miscere aliquid cum aliqua re, aliquid aliqua re, or aliquid alicui rei; admiscere alicui rei; or, in the passive, admisceri aliqua re. To dash, or put out of countenance, pudorem alicui injicere, incutere: ruborem alicui afferre (to put to the blush, Tac., Ann., 13, 15, 2). To be dashed, pudor suffunditur mini; pudore arncior aliqua re; dashed, pudore suffusus. To frustrate (Vid :) ad vanum, or ad irritum, or ad vanum et irritum redigere; ad nihil redigere; disturbare (e.g., nuptias; legem): to dash all anybody’s projects, conturbare alicui omnes rationes; alicujus consilia discutere (Justinus, 2, extr.): death dashes all one’s hopes and projects, omnem spem atque omnia vitae consilia mors pervertit. Dash out; [Vid: ERASE]. To beat down; to dash anybody’s pride, alicujus spiritus reprimere: to dash anybody’s hopes or confidence, alicujus spem infringere, debilitare; spem alicui praecidere. Sketch hastily (Pope), primis velut lineis aliquid designare. 2. INTR., impingi, illidi, allidi alicui rei (e.g., saxo): offendere alicui rei and in aliquo (e.g., offendere solido, Hor.; puppis offendit in scopulo, Ov.): affligi (e.g., naves saxo). Rush: Vid: to RUSH; to dash (= rush) into [Vid: “to DART into”]. The waves d dash violently against the shore, fluctus se illidunt maximo cum sonitu in litus. The waves dash over the ships, naves fluctibus complentur (Caes., B.G., 4, 28). 3. s. Collision, collisus (post-Augustan): concursio. illisus (only in ablative; illisu aquarum, Silius): ictus levis (a light stroke). Violent and sudden onset, incursio: incursus: impetus. To make a dash against the enemy, equum or se immittere in hostes; incurrere, invehi in hostem. A sprinkling, respersio. A small portion, or admixture of anything, paullulum: exiguum (Liv., and post-classical; e.g., aquae, mellis): nescio quid: aliquid. A dash of litterature, literularum nescio quid (Cic., Att., 7, 2, 7). A man with a dash of impudence, paullum impudens. It may often be translated by non sine (with or without quidam): not without a dash of envy, non sine invidia: to have a dash of (any color; e.g., ) violet, in violam vergere; violam sentire; in violam desinere. A mark in writing, *signum orationis praecisae (unknown to the ancients): by a single dash of his pen, una litterarum significatione (of an order given by a single letter).