I.to refuse, be unwilling (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “conjugium alicui,” Verg. A. 7, 424: imbrem, Col. (poet.) 10, 51: “comitem (se),” Hor. C. 1, 35, 22; cf. Sil. 3, 110: “depositum,” to deny, Plin. Ep. 10, 97; so, “partem pecuniae (pactae),” Quint. 11, 2, 11; cf. Dig. 16, 3, 11 al.—With inf.: “medicas adhibere manus ad vulnera pastor Abnegat,” Verg. G. 3, 456; so id. A. 2, 637.—Absol.: “Abnegat, inceptoque, etc.,” Verg. A. 2, 654.
ab-nĕgo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,