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

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Contents (4 entries · 4 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• employ (v.):
      1. 1. ūtor, ūsus, 3 (with abl.): v. to use.
      2. 2. ădhĭbeo, 2 (for some definite end): to e. a master or teacher, magistrum ad., Cic.: the iambic metre is e.'d in the drama, numerus iambicus adhibetur in fabulis, Cic.: he began to be e.'d in more important cases, ad majores causas adhiberi coeptus est, Cic.
      3. 3. collŏco, 1 (to lay out in doing something): to e. oneself entirely in study and (the pursuit of) knowledge, se totum in cognitione et scientia c., Cic. Off. 1, 44, 158: simly, omne suum studium in aliqua re c., Cic.
      4. 4. exerceo, 2 (to keep at work): v. to exercise. Phr.: to be actively e.'d in cases before the centumvirs, jactare se in causis centumviralibus, Cic.: to be e.'d over other people's business, in alienis negotiis detineri, Cic. (v. to be engaged): this cause will e. the first months, haec causa primos menses occupabit, Coel. ap. Cic.: v. to occupy.
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• employ (subs.): v. employment. Phr.: to have a workman in one's e., *opificem conductum habere.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (2)
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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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• EMPLOY
v. uti aliqua re: usurpare aliquid: adhibere aliquid [SYN. in USE.] To employ anything in any way, adhibere aliquid alicui rei or in re, or ad rem (to use it for any definite purpose): collocare in re: impendere in or ad aliquid: conferre ad aliquid (of expending what belongs to us upon any object). To employ remedies, adhibere remedia morbis; care, industry, etc., in any matter, diligentiam adhibere, industriam locare, studium collocare in re; much thought and labor upon anything, magnum studium et multam operam conferre ad aliquid; labor, etc., in vain, operam frustra consumere; operam perdere, profundere ac perdere. I have employed all my labor to no purpose, oleum et operam perdidi (Prov.): to employ one’s self in anything, se dare alicui rei (e.g., historiae): to employ one’s time in any pursuit, tempus conterere or consumere in re: to employ one’s time well, tempus bene locare or collocare; unprofitably, tempus frustra conterere: to employ a physician, medico uti or medicum adhibere (sc. morbo): to employ a word, verbo uti (☞ not verbum usurpare or adhibere): employ a word correctly, verbum opportune proprieque collocare: to employ a word in such a sense, subjicere sententiam vocabulo; vocabulo aliquid significare, declarare; in a rare sense, verbum doctiuscule ponere. Cic. employs the word in the opposite meaning, contra valet, cum Cic. dicit, etc. To employ one’s money, pecuniam occupare; in any way, in aliqua re (e.g., in pecore; but fenore without in). To employ anybody for any purpose, alicujus opera uti ad aliquid or in re; aliquo adjutore uti in re; uti in re: to employ laborers, homines in operas mittere: conducere operas (to hire them): to employ (= hire) anybody to do anything, conducere aliquem ad rem faciendam. To be employed about anything, in aliqua re versari (later writers circa aliquam rem versari); in re occupatum esse; intentum esse alicui rei aliquid mihi est in manibus.
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• EMPLOY, EMPLOYMENT
  • As thing, res: opus: negotium: occupatio: ministerium: studium. [SYN. in BUSINESS]: To receive an employment, muneri praeponi or praefici: to have received an employment, muneri praepositum esse or praeesse: to be out of employment, a nullo conductum esse (to have been hired by nobody).
  • Act of employing, usus (the circumstance of using): usurpatio (act of using on a particular occasion). The frequent employment, frequens usus (alicujus rei). The employment of a word; circumlocution by verbs under “EMPLOY (a word),” for positio dictionis is not Latin.