I.to make blunt or dull, to blunt, dull, dim, deaden, weaken (perh. not ante-Aug.; not in Cic.).
I. Lit.: “hastas,” Liv. 8, 10, 3: “vulneribus suis ferrum hostium,” id. 30, 35, 8: “tela,” Sil. 16, 105: “aciem oculorum,” Plin. 20, 6, 21, § 47: “oculos,” Lact. 6, 2: “visus alicui,” Verg. A. 2, 605: “dies hebetarat sidera,” had dimmed, Ov. M. 5, 444: “umbra terrae lunam hebetari,” Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 57; cf.: “smaragdos in sole hebetari,” id. 37, 5, 18, § 69; 28, 7, 23, § 79: “auster aures hebetat,” Cels. 2, 1: “primores dentes mollientes aut hebetantes verba,” Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: “cummium genera amaritudines hebetant,” moderate, lessen, id. 24, 11, 64, § 105; cf.: “venena omnia (oleum),” id. 23, 4, 40, § 80: “odor suavior e longinquo, propius admotus hebetatur,” id. 21, 7, 18, § 35: “faba hebetare sensus existimata,” id. 18, 12, 30, § 118: “vos mihi taurorum flammas hebetastis,” quenched the fiery breath, Ov. M. 7, 210.—
