1 in+PET-, an attack, assault, onset: armatorum: impetum facere in curiam, S.: ad regem, L.: hostes impetu facto nostros perturbaverunt, Cs.: impetum sustinere, Cs.: terrere eum impetu, S.: me in hos impetūs obicere: continenti impetu, without a pause, Cs. —An impulse, rapid motion, impetus, impetuosity, violence, fury, rush, vehemence, vigor, force: eo impetu milites ierunt, ut, etc., Cs.: fugati terrore ipso impetuque hostium, Cs.: caeli, i. e. rapid motion: illam (navem) fert impetus ipse volantem, V.: quieti corpus nocturno impetu Dedi, i. e. in the night, Att. ap. C.: tantos impetūs ventorum sustinere, Cs.— Fig., impulse, vehemence, ardor, passion: repentino quodam impetu animi incitatus: impetu magis quam consilio, L.: in oratione: divinus: si ex hoc impetu rerum nihil prolatando remittitur, L.: famae, Ta.: Est mihi impetus ire, I feel an impulse, O.: imperii delendi: animalia, quae habent suos impetūs, impulses: non recti impetūs animi: offensionis, i. e. freshness, Ta.
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