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rēiciō (not reiiciō; imper. reice, disyl., V.), rēiēcī, iectus, ere

re-+iacio, to throw back, fling back, hurl back : telum in hostīs, Cs.: togam ab umero, L.: ex umeris amictum, V.: de corpore vestem, O.: paenulam: ab ore colubras, O.: Capillus circum caput Reiectus neglegenter, T.: scutum, throw over the back (in flight): fatigata membra, i. e. stretch on the ground , Cu.: a se mea pectora, to push back , O.: (librum) e gremio suo, fling away , O.: oculos Rutulorum reicit arvis, averts , V.: pascentīs a flumine reice capellas, drive back , V.: in postremam aciem, throw to the rear , L.: se in eum, into his arms , T.To force back, beat back, repel, repulse : eos in oppidum, Cs.: Tusci reiecti armis, V. ab Antiocheā hostem.— Pass, to be driven back : navīs tempestate reiectas revertisse, Cs.: reflantibus ventis reici: ex cursu Dyrrachium reiecti, L.—Fig., to drive back, drive away, cast off, remove, repel, reject : ad famem hunc ab studio, T.: ferrum et audaciam: retrorsum Hannibalis minas, H.To reject contemptuously, refuse, scorn, disdain, despise : nos, T.: petentem, O.: Lydiam, H.: refutetur ac reiciatur ille clamor: quae cum reiecta relatio esset, when the appeal was overruled , L.: volgarīs taedas, O.: Reiectā praedā, H.: dona nocentium, H.P. n . as s<*>bst. : reicienda, evils to be rejected : reiecta.—Of judges, to set aside, challenge peremptorily, reject : ex CXXV iudicibus quinque et LXX: potestas reiciendi, right of challenge .—Of persons, to refer, direct, assign : ad ipsam te epistulam: in hunc gregem Sullam, transfer (in your judgment).—In public life, to refer, turn over (for deliberation or decision): totam rem ad Pompeium, Cs.: ab tribunis ad senatum res est reiecta, L.: id cum ad senatum relatum esset, L.: ut nihil huc reicias: legati ab senatu reiecti ad populum, referred , L.—In time, to defer, postpone : a Kal. Febr. legationes in Idūs Febr. reiciebantur: repente abs te in mensem Quintilem reiecti sumus.

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