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perpello
perpello
Latin
Verb
perpellō (present infinitive perpellere, perfect active perpulī, supine perpulsum); third conjugation
- I strike or push violently.
- (figuratively) I drive, urge, force, enforce, constrain, compel, prevail upon; influence.
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References
- perpello in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- perpello in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “perpello”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.