(often confounded with discribo), to copy off,
transcribe, write out, write down: a te librum (i. e. a tuo
exemplo): descriptam legem adferunt, the draf<*> in foliis carmina, V.:
in cortice Carmina, carve, V.: ius
ab antiquā gente, copy, adopt, L.—To sketch, describe,
draw, depict, represent: formas in harenā: caeli
meatūs radio, V.—Fig., to represent, delineate,
describe: res verbis describenda: dignus describi, quod malus ac
fur, etc., H.: volnera Parthi, H.: cum pluvius describitur arcus, H.: facta
versibus, N.: Votivā descripta
tabellā Vita senis, H.—To define, prescribe, fix,
assign: iura finium: rationem totius belli: classīs ex
censu, L.: vices (poetae), H.: in quattuor urbanas tribūs libertinos, L.: in duodecim mensīs annum, L.: vecturas frumenti finitimis civitatibus, Cs.: suum
cuique munus.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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