indulgence Copy link Outline I. Too lenient treatment1. indulgentia (in good or bad sense)2. vĕnia (an act of grace or clemency)II. Free gratification of desiresIII. Papal • indulgence: I. Too lenient treatment: 1. indulgentia (in good or bad sense): excessive i. towards any one, nimia i. in aliquem, Pl. in Cic. Fam. 10, 23, med.: Caes. 2. vĕnia (an act of grace or clemency): to grant any one an i., v. alicui dare, Cic. Arch. 2, 3: Liv. To treat with i., indulgere: v. to indulge. II. Free gratification of desires: Phr.: prone to sensual i., effusus in Venerem, Liv. 29, 23, med.: devoted to every kind of vicious and depraved i., vitiis flagitiisque omnibus deditus, Cic. R. Am. 13, 38: so, voluptatibus deditus, id. Fin. 1, 18, 57: habitual i. of animal desires, corporis obsequium atque indulgentia, Cic. Fin. 1, 23, init.: free i. in wine, largior jucundiorque vini invitatio, Gell. 15, 2 (also dimin. invitatiunculae, slight indulgence, ib. in lemm.). III. Papal: *indulgentia (as tech. t.): plenary i., ind. plenariae: to preach i.s, ind. praedicare, Eccl. Scr. in Kr. Or expr. by circuml.: venia s. remissio peccatorum a pontifice Romano promissa, Kr.
INDULGENCE Copy link • INDULGENCEindulgentia: clementia: benignitas [SYN. in INDULGENT]: venia (pardon shown to error, or to persons in error). To show indulgence to, etc., indulgere alicui or alicui rei (e.g., to a debtor, debitori; to anybody’s faults, alicujus peccatis): veniam dare alicui or alicui rei (to grant pardon, e.g., errori) [☞ To INDULGE]: to show indulgence to anything, connivere in aliqua re (to wink at): gratiam facere alicujus rei (to concede): to treat anybody with indulgence, indulgentia tractare or indulgenter habere aliquem; indulgere alicui: to treat anybody with much indulgence, magna esse in aliquem indulgentia: to treat anybody with too much indulgence, nimis or nimium alicui indulgere; one’s self, nimis sibi indulgere. An indulgence (ecclesiastical), venia Pontificis Romani; venia delictorum or peccatorum (☞ indulgentia, used by ecclesiastical writers, is not to be recommended): to grant an indulgence, veniam alicui et impunitatem dare (Cic., Phil., 8, 11, 32): to obtain an indulgence, veniam peccatorum impetrare: a letter of indulgence, *litterae or libellus veniarum. Sale of indulgences, veniarum nundinatio (Vid: Cic., Rull., 1, 3, 9): to sell indulgences, *Pontificis Romani veniam nundinari. A seller of indulgences, *nundinator veniarum; veniarum venditor. Money paid for indulgences, or raised by the sale of indulgences, nummi ob veniam Pontificis Romani impetrandam dati (after Cic., Verr., 5, 51, extr.).