to spit back, discharge by spitting, cast out, cast
off, eject, expel: gustatus, id, quod valde dulce est, respuit: quas
natura respuerit: invisum cadaver (humus), O.—Fig., to reject,
repel, refuse, spurn, dislike, disapprove: quis te tum audiret
illorum? respuerent aures: id quod omnium mentes aspernentur ac respuant: haec aetas
omne quod fieri non potest respuit: condicionem, Cs.: Caesaris interdicta respuuntur, are spurned: in animis
hominum respui, L.: consolationem.
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