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

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Contents (2 entries · 6 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• despise:
      1. 1. despĭcio, spexi, spectum 3 (to look down upon, hold cheap): to d. the senatorian order, senatorium ordinem d., Cic. Join: despicere et pro nihilo putare, Cic.; despicere atque contemnere, Cic.
      2. 2. sperno, sprēvi, sprētum, 3 (much stronger): v. to scorn. Join: spernere et pro nihilo putare, Cic.
      3. 3. aspernor, 1 (to hold unworthy, reject with contempt): to d. any one from the heart, aliquem animo a., Cic.: v. to reject.
      4. 4. contemno, tempsi, temptum, 3 (usu. with reference to that which might appear likely to call forth the opposite feeling): to d. Hannibal, Hannibalem c., Cic.: to d. riches, opes c., Virg. Join: irridere atque contemnere; contemnere atque rejicere, Cic.
      5. 5. temno, 3 (rare and poet.): Virg.
      6. 6. despicatui, contemptui habeo (= despicio, contemno): v. contempt. Other equiv. phr. are: parvi pendĕre; flocci, pili, nihili facere, etc.: v. to hold (cheap): to be d.d, jacēre, Cic.: Ov.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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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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• DESPISE
v. despicere: despicatui habere (to look down upon; not to value, opposed to suspicere, revereri, admirari): contemnere: contemptui habere (to despise what one might be expected to fear; opposed to metuere, timere; e.g., mortem, pericula; but also auctoritates, consilium, Vid :.): spernere (to despise or hold cheap what one might be expected to desire; to reject with scorn; opposed to appetere, concupiscere; but also of holding a person cheap): aspernari (to reject with aversion; to utter the feeling implied in spernere): (The words are found in this connection and order.) contemnere ac despicere; despicere et contemnere; contemnere et pro nihilo ducere; despicere et pro nihilo putare; spernere et pro nihilo putare; spernere et repudiare: fastidire (to feel disgust against anything; to reject it from pride, etc): negligere (to disregard). (The words are found in this connection and order.) contemnere ac negligere: cf., temnere is poetical for contemnere; despicari, late and rare. Nobody despises himself, nemo umquam sui despiciens fuit: the consciousness of having despised the gods, spretorum deorum conscientia :to despise glory, gloriam repudiare or spernere; anybody’s favor, gratiam alicujus repudiare.