scruple (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Doubt, difficulty, hesitation, arising from the questionable propriety of an act1. relĭgio (s. of conscience)2. scrūpŭlus (uneasiness of mind, difficulty, embarrassment)3. dŭbĭtātio, cunctātioII. A weight or measure • scruple (subs.): I. Doubt, difficulty, hesitation, arising from the questionable propriety of an act: 1. relĭgio (s. of conscience): to raise a s. in any one's mind, injicere r. alicui, Cic. Caec. 33, 97: so, oblata religio Cornuto est, a s. was raised in his mind, id. Fam. 10, 12, med.: and, afferre r., id. de Or. 2, 90, fin.: I have no s. about it, nulla mihi r. est, Hor. S. 1, 9, 70: r. mihi non est quominus ..., Cic. Cat. 3, 6, 15. 2. scrūpŭlus (uneasiness of mind, difficulty, embarrassment): without s., sine s., Col. 5, 11 (not so in Cic.). Join: scrupulus et quaedam dubitatio (an uneasy, perplexed feeling), Cic. Clu. 28, 76. 3. dŭbĭtātio, cunctātio: v. doubt, hesitation. II. A weight or measure: scrūpŭlus (usu. in neuter, scrupulum or scripulum): if a s. of gold is put in there, si ibi auri s. imponatur, Vitr. 7, 8, med.: eight s.s, scripula octo, Col. 12, 28, 1. Of a s.: weighing a s., scrūpŭlāris, Plin. 33, 8, 43 (scripulari differentia). By scruples (in weight), scrūpŭlatim (scripul.), Plin. 22, 24, 56, med.
scruple (v.) Copy link • scruple (v.): dŭbĭto, cunctor, etc.: v. to doubt, hesitate. More precisely expr. by religio mihi est: v. preced. art. (I.).
SCRUPLE Copy link • SCRUPLE 1. s. Doubt, difficulty, dubitatio: cunctatio (a delaying): haesitatio (hesitation): scrupulus (a disquieting doubt): religio (a scruple of conscience). To make, raise, or cause a scruple, dubitationem afferre, inferre, injicere, dare; scrupulum alicui injicere, incutere: to make a scruple about anything, aliquid in religionem trahere; aliquid religioni habere: I make no scruple about it, nulla mihi religio est (Hor., Sat., 1, 9, 70). I make no scruple, have or feel no scruple in doing anything, religio mihi non est quominus, etc. (Vid: Cic., Cat., 3, 6, 15). Without any scruple (you can do so and so), sine sollicitudine religionis (Trajanus, ap. Plin., Ep., 10, 62, in.). To remove a scruple, dubitationem alicui praecidere, tollere, expellere; scrupulum alicui eximere or ex animo evellere; religionem alicui evellere; religionem alicui eximere. I have still one scruple, unus mihi restat scrupulus. I am disturbed by a scruple, scrupulus me stimulat ac pungit. There is a scruple whether or not, consultatio tenet, ne, etc. (Liv., 2, 3). If the slightest scruple should seem to exist, si tenuissimus scrupulus residere videbitur: without scruple, nulla interposita dubitatione; sine ulla dubitatione. (As a weight), scripulum or scrupulum, and sometimes scrupulus: of a scruple weighing a scruple, scripularis, scrupularis: by scruples, scripulatim, scrupulatim 2. v. dubitare: haesitare: cunctari. Vid: HESITATE.