• DELAY

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• TR. Put off; Vid: DEFER.
• To delay or hinder from going on, morari; remorari; moram facere alicui rei; moram afferre alicui or alicui rei; moram et tarditatem afferre alicui rei (to cause delay in anything): tardare retardare (to delay or retard anything; e.g., the pursuit of the enemy, etc.): to delay anybody (i. e., prevent his setting out on a journey), profecturum detinere; alicujus profectionem tardare: anybody on his journey, retardare aliquem in via; remorari alicujus iter: unless he has been deluged (on his road), nisi quid impedimenti in via passus est (Cic.): to delay anybody in pursuit of the enemy, tardare aliquem ad insequendum hostem (of a bog, which lay in the way): the attack of the enemy, morari, tardare, or retardare hostium impetum: to be delayed by anything, tardari aliqua re: I am delayed by the winds, ventis detineor in loco; venti me tardant.

2. INTR., or ABSOL. To linger, loiter, be slow, cessare (to delay from laziness when a task is to be performed: absolutely, or with infinitive; also in aliqua, re and sometimes ad aliquid; e.g., ad arma, and poetically in aliquid; in vota precesque, Verg.): cunctari (to delay doing anything from irresolution; seldom with infinitive [e.g., profiteri, Cic.] or relative clause [quid faciatis, Sall.]): morari; moram facere (to delay when anybody ought to be getting on; morari may be followed by infinitive): tardare (from ennui or want of will): tergiversari (to seek an escape from the necessity of doing or saying what one dislikes). (The words are found in this connection and order.) cunctari et tergiversari (with ut, ne, Cic.): haesitare (to delay from not knowing what to do or say): to delay from day to day, diem ex die ducere or prolatare. To punish those who delay, tardantes punire (of bees; Plin.).

3. s. mora: retardatio: (The words are found in this connection and order.) retardatio et mora (delay that makes one late, hinders one, etc.): sustentatio (the being suspended, as to its execution, etc., for a time). (The words are found in this connection and order.) mora et sustentatio: commoratio (time one stops at a place): cessatio (from laziness when work is to be done): dilatio; prolatio (the putting off): procrastinatio (delay from one day to another): tarditas (slowness). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tarditas et procrastinatio (Cic.): cunctatio (delay from irresolution): to grant delay, dare dilationem: to grant a few days’ delay (with reference to payment), paucos dies ad solvendum alicui prorogare: to ask for delay, petere dilationem: to admit of delay, habere aliquam moram et sustentationem (opposed to necessity of being done at once, statim): to endure no delay, dilationem non pati; dilationem non pati or recipere; cunctationem non recipere: without delay, sine dilatione; sine mora; nulla interposita mora: protinus: statim, continuo (immediately): abjecta omni cunctatione (without any delay from irresolution): to do anything without delay, repraesentare aliquid (especially of a payment; but also of other actions): it is no time for delay, nulla mora est maturato opus est: to cause delay, tarditatem or moram et tarditatem afferre (alicui rei); impedimentum afferre (alicui rei, Tac.); moram atque impedimentum (alicui rei) inferre (Cic.); (alicui rei) moram facere, afferre, inferre, objicere.