fashioning

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forming, fashioning, shaping

af-fingo (better adf-), inxi, ictum, 3, v. a., to form, fashion, devise, make, or invent a thing as an addition or appendage to another.

Lit. (esp. of artists).

With dat.:

nec ei manus adfinxit,

Cic. Tim. 6:

saepta, adficta villae quae sunt,

Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 2.—

Absol.:

Nullam partem corporis sine aliquā necessitate adfictam reperietis,

Cic. Or. 3, 45, 179.—

Trop., to make up, frame, invent, to add falsely or without grounds:

faciam ut intellegatis, quid error adfinxerit, quid invidia conflārit,

Cic. Clu. 4:

vitium hoc oculis adfingere noli,

Lucr. 4, 386:

neque vera laus ei detracta oratione nostrā, neque falsa adficta esse videatur,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 10; so id. Phil. 1, 3; id. Or. 22; id. Tusc. 3, 33:

addunt ipsi et adfingunt rumoribus Galli,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

cui crimen adfingeretur,

might be falsely imputed, Tac. A. 14, 62.—

In a general signif.

To add or join to, to annex (always with the accessory idea of forming, fashioning, devising):

sint cubilia gallinarum aut exsculpta aut adficta firmiter,

Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 7: multa natura aut adfingit ( creating, she adds thereto) aut mutat aut detrahit, Cic. Div. 1, 62, 118:

tantum alteri adfinxit, de altero limavit,

id. de Or. 3, 9, 36.—

To feign, forge:

litteras,

App. M. 4, 139, 34 Elm.

af-fingo (better adf-), inxi, ictum, 3, v. a., to form, fashion, devise, make, or invent a thing as an addition or appendage to another.

Lit. (esp. of artists).

With dat.:

nec ei manus adfinxit,

Cic. Tim. 6:

saepta, adficta villae quae sunt,

Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 2.—

Absol.:

Nullam partem corporis sine aliquā necessitate adfictam reperietis,

Cic. Or. 3, 45, 179.—

Trop., to make up, frame, invent, to add falsely or without grounds:

faciam ut intellegatis, quid error adfinxerit, quid invidia conflārit,

Cic. Clu. 4:

vitium hoc oculis adfingere noli,

Lucr. 4, 386:

neque vera laus ei detracta oratione nostrā, neque falsa adficta esse videatur,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 10; so id. Phil. 1, 3; id. Or. 22; id. Tusc. 3, 33:

addunt ipsi et adfingunt rumoribus Galli,

Caes. B. G. 7, 1:

cui crimen adfingeretur,

might be falsely imputed, Tac. A. 14, 62.—

In a general signif.

To add or join to, to annex (always with the accessory idea of forming, fashioning, devising):

sint cubilia gallinarum aut exsculpta aut adficta firmiter,

Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 7: multa natura aut adfingit ( creating, she adds thereto) aut mutat aut detrahit, Cic. Div. 1, 62, 118:

tantum alteri adfinxit, de altero limavit,

id. de Or. 3, 9, 36.—

To feign, forge:

litteras,

App. M. 4, 139, 34 Elm.

conformātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a symmetrical forming or fashioning, conformation, shape, form (freq. in the philos. and rhet. writings of Cic.; elsewhere rare).

Prop.:

lineamentorum,

Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47:

qualis sit (animus) in ipso corpore, quae conformatio, quae magnitudo, qui locus,

id. Tusc. 1, 22, 50:

membrorum,

id. N. D. 2, 33, 85:

quaedam et figura totius oris et corporis,

id. de Or. 1, 25, 114:

theatri,

Vitr. 5, 6.—

Trop.

In gen.:

vocis,

expression of voice, Cic. de Or. 1, 5, 18:

verborum,

arrangement, id. ib. 1, 33, 151:

verborum et sententiarum,

id. ib. 3, 52, 201:

conformatio et moderatio continentiae et temperantiae,

conformation, id. Off. 3, 25, 96:

animi, i. q. notio,

an idea, notion, conception, id. N. D. 1, 38, 105.—Also without animi, Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 357; id. Top. 5, 27.—

Esp., in rhet., a figure of speech, Cic. Brut. 37, 140; Quint. 9, 1, 4; 9, 2, 1.—

In later rhett. esp., a prosopopœia, Auct. Her. 4, 53, 66; Prisc. p. 1340 P.

dis-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum (contr. dispostum, Lucr. 1, 52; 2, 644), 3, v. a., to place here and there, to set in different places, to distribute regularly, to dispose, arrange (cf. dispenso, II.—freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen., to set in order, arrange, dispose:

libros confusos antea,

Cic. Att. 4, 8, a; cf.:

Homeri libros,

id. de Or. 3, 34, 137:

oculos (harundinum),

Cato R. R. 47; cf.

brassicam,

Col. 11, 3, 27:

arbores,

Plin. 17, 11, 15, § 78:

quidque suo loco,

Col. 12, 2, 3; cf.:

pennas in ordine,

Ov. A. A. 2, 45;

for which: disjecta membra in ordinem,

Sen. Hippol. 1257:

obliquos ordines in quincuncem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 5:

aciem,

Tac. H. 2, 41; Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 31:

male capillos,

Ov. Am. 1, 14, 35; cf.

comas,

id. Pont. 3, 3, 16; Mart. 12, 83:

tectos enses per herbam,

Verg. A. 3, 237:

ceras per atria,

Ov. F. 1, 591;

for which: expressi cera voltus singulis disponebantur armariis,

Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6:

tabernas deversorias per litora et ripas,

Suet. Ner. 27:

cubicula plurifariam,

id. Tib. 43 et saep.— Poet.:

(Prometheus) corpora disponens, etc., qs. arranging the parts, limbs,

i. e. fashioning, forming, Prop. 3, 5, 9 (4, 4, 9 M.):

moenia versu,

i. e. to describe, id. 4 (5), 1, 57; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 7, 64.—

In partic., milit. t. t., to set in order, arrange, to draw up, array a body of men, a guard, military engines, etc.:

praesidia disponit, castella communit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8, 2; so,

praesidia,

id. B. C. 3, 15, 2:

stationes,

id. B. G. 5, 15 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 73, 3:

custodias,

id. ib. 3, 8, 4:

cohortes,

id. B. G. 5, 33, 1:

equites,

id. ib. 7, 56, 4; id. B. C. 3, 101, 3:

exploratores,

id. B. G. 7, 35, 1:

insidias,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 29; 2, 9, 7 al.:

equos,

to station in relays, Liv. 37, 7:

ballistas machinasque,

Suet. Calig. 46 et saep.:

custodias in muro,

Caes. B. G. 7, 27, 1; 7, 34, 1:

expeditos,

id. B. C. 1, 27 fin. et saep.; cf.:

legiones in Apulia hibernorum causa,

id. ib. 1, 14, 3:

tormenta in muris,

id. ib. 1, 17, 3:

sudes in opere,

id. B. G. 7, 81, 4 et saep.:

milites iis operibus quae, etc.,

id. B. C. 1, 21, 3:

exploratores omni fluminis parte,

id. B. G. 7, 61, 1:

classem omni ora maritima,

id. B. C. 3, 5, 2:

naves in litore pluribus locis separatim,

id. ib. 3, 24, 1:

cohortes castris praesidio,

id. ib. 3, 88, 4 et saep.:

praesidia custodiasque ad ripas Ligeris,

id. B. G. 7, 55, 9; cf. id. ib. 7, 65, 3; id. B. C. 1, 50:

praesidia cis Rhenum,

id. B. G. 4, 4, 3; cf.:

legiones Narbone circumque ea loca hiemandi causa,

id. B. C. 1, 37, 1:

equites per oram maritimam,

id. ib. 3, 24, 4; cf. id. ib. 3, 111, 1; Suet. Aug. 32; Front. Strat. 2, 5, 1 et saep.

Trop.:

verba ita disponunt ut pictores varietatem colorum, paria paribus referunt,

Cic. Or. 19 fin.;

so of the regular arrangement of the parts of a discourse,

id. de Or. 2, 42, 179; 3, 25, 96 al.; Quint. 2, 12, 10; 3, 3, 10 et saep.; cf. also Tac. Or. 3:

fac ut plane iis omnibus, quos devinctos tenes, descriptum ac dispositum suum cuique munus sit,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 5 fin.; cf.

ministeria principatus in equites Romanos,

Tac. H. 1, 58:

imperii curas,

id. A. 16, 8:

consilia in omnem fortunam ita disposita habebat (the fig. being borrowed from milit. lang.),

Liv. 42, 29:

in disponendo die,

in arranging the business of the day, Suet. Tib. 11:

diem,

Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 25 fin.; Tac. G. 30; Plin. Ep. 9, 36; cf.

otium,

id. ib. 4, 23:

tempus otiosum,

Mart. 5, 20:

opus et requiem pariter,

Pers. 5, 43 et saep.—

In post-class. lang., with acc. and inf. or rel. clause, like the Gr. diatassô, to settle, determine:

non alienum erit disponi, apud quem puer interim educetur,

Dig. 43, 30, 3, § 4:

Thebani apparere paucos disposuerunt,

Front. Strat. 3, 2, 10, 2 (dub.):

excursatores quingentos sensim praeire disposuit,

Amm. 24, 1; 24, 6, 4.—With ut, Dig. 10, 3, 18.—Hence, dispŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a., regularly distributed; hence properly ordered, arranged (very rare):

studia ad honorem disposita,

Cic. Mur. 14:

vita hominum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 2;

also transf.: vir dispositus,

an orderly speaker, id. ib. 2, 11, 17.—As subst.:

lumina ex disposito relucentia,

Sen. de Prov. 1, 2.— Comp.: dispositius, Sen. Q. N. praef. fin.; cf. Lact. Ira D. 10 med.—Sup. Boëth. Cons. Phil. 4, pros. 2.— Adv.: dispŏsĭte, orderly, methodically:

accusare istum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 87:

dicere,

Quint. 10, 7, 12:

exponere,

Vitr. 7 praef. §

18: mundus effectus est (with ordinate),

Lact. 3, 17.— Sup.:

aedificare,

Sid. Ep. 5, 11.

dis-pōno, pŏsŭi, pŏsĭtum (contr. dispostum, Lucr. 1, 52; 2, 644), 3, v. a., to place here and there, to set in different places, to distribute regularly, to dispose, arrange (cf. dispenso, II.—freq. and class.).

Lit.

In gen., to set in order, arrange, dispose:

libros confusos antea,

Cic. Att. 4, 8, a; cf.:

Homeri libros,

id. de Or. 3, 34, 137:

oculos (harundinum),

Cato R. R. 47; cf.

brassicam,

Col. 11, 3, 27:

arbores,

Plin. 17, 11, 15, § 78:

quidque suo loco,

Col. 12, 2, 3; cf.:

pennas in ordine,

Ov. A. A. 2, 45;

for which: disjecta membra in ordinem,

Sen. Hippol. 1257:

obliquos ordines in quincuncem,

Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 5:

aciem,

Tac. H. 2, 41; Plin. 9, 8, 9, § 31:

male capillos,

Ov. Am. 1, 14, 35; cf.

comas,

id. Pont. 3, 3, 16; Mart. 12, 83:

tectos enses per herbam,

Verg. A. 3, 237:

ceras per atria,

Ov. F. 1, 591;

for which: expressi cera voltus singulis disponebantur armariis,

Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 6:

tabernas deversorias per litora et ripas,

Suet. Ner. 27:

cubicula plurifariam,

id. Tib. 43 et saep.— Poet.:

(Prometheus) corpora disponens, etc., qs. arranging the parts, limbs,

i. e. fashioning, forming, Prop. 3, 5, 9 (4, 4, 9 M.):

moenia versu,

i. e. to describe, id. 4 (5), 1, 57; cf. Ov. Am. 3, 7, 64.—

In partic., milit. t. t., to set in order, arrange, to draw up, array a body of men, a guard, military engines, etc.:

praesidia disponit, castella communit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8, 2; so,

praesidia,

id. B. C. 3, 15, 2:

stationes,

id. B. G. 5, 15 fin.; id. B. C. 1, 73, 3:

custodias,

id. ib. 3, 8, 4:

cohortes,

id. B. G. 5, 33, 1:

equites,

id. ib. 7, 56, 4; id. B. C. 3, 101, 3:

exploratores,

id. B. G. 7, 35, 1:

insidias,

Front. Strat. 2, 5, 29; 2, 9, 7 al.:

equos,

to station in relays, Liv. 37, 7:

ballistas machinasque,

Suet. Calig. 46 et saep.:

custodias in muro,

Caes. B. G. 7, 27, 1; 7, 34, 1:

expeditos,

id. B. C. 1, 27 fin. et saep.; cf.:

legiones in Apulia hibernorum causa,

id. ib. 1, 14, 3:

tormenta in muris,

id. ib. 1, 17, 3:

sudes in opere,

id. B. G. 7, 81, 4 et saep.:

milites iis operibus quae, etc.,

id. B. C. 1, 21, 3:

exploratores omni fluminis parte,

id. B. G. 7, 61, 1:

classem omni ora maritima,

id. B. C. 3, 5, 2:

naves in litore pluribus locis separatim,

id. ib. 3, 24, 1:

cohortes castris praesidio,

id. ib. 3, 88, 4 et saep.:

praesidia custodiasque ad ripas Ligeris,

id. B. G. 7, 55, 9; cf. id. ib. 7, 65, 3; id. B. C. 1, 50:

praesidia cis Rhenum,

id. B. G. 4, 4, 3; cf.:

legiones Narbone circumque ea loca hiemandi causa,

id. B. C. 1, 37, 1:

equites per oram maritimam,

id. ib. 3, 24, 4; cf. id. ib. 3, 111, 1; Suet. Aug. 32; Front. Strat. 2, 5, 1 et saep.

Trop.:

verba ita disponunt ut pictores varietatem colorum, paria paribus referunt,

Cic. Or. 19 fin.;

so of the regular arrangement of the parts of a discourse,

id. de Or. 2, 42, 179; 3, 25, 96 al.; Quint. 2, 12, 10; 3, 3, 10 et saep.; cf. also Tac. Or. 3:

fac ut plane iis omnibus, quos devinctos tenes, descriptum ac dispositum suum cuique munus sit,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 5 fin.; cf.

ministeria principatus in equites Romanos,

Tac. H. 1, 58:

imperii curas,

id. A. 16, 8:

consilia in omnem fortunam ita disposita habebat (the fig. being borrowed from milit. lang.),

Liv. 42, 29:

in disponendo die,

in arranging the business of the day, Suet. Tib. 11:

diem,

Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 25 fin.; Tac. G. 30; Plin. Ep. 9, 36; cf.

otium,

id. ib. 4, 23:

tempus otiosum,

Mart. 5, 20:

opus et requiem pariter,

Pers. 5, 43 et saep.—

In post-class. lang., with acc. and inf. or rel. clause, like the Gr. diatassô, to settle, determine:

non alienum erit disponi, apud quem puer interim educetur,

Dig. 43, 30, 3, § 4:

Thebani apparere paucos disposuerunt,

Front. Strat. 3, 2, 10, 2 (dub.):

excursatores quingentos sensim praeire disposuit,

Amm. 24, 1; 24, 6, 4.—With ut, Dig. 10, 3, 18.—Hence, dispŏsĭtus, a, um, P. a., regularly distributed; hence properly ordered, arranged (very rare):

studia ad honorem disposita,

Cic. Mur. 14:

vita hominum,

Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 2;

also transf.: vir dispositus,

an orderly speaker, id. ib. 2, 11, 17.—As subst.:

lumina ex disposito relucentia,

Sen. de Prov. 1, 2.— Comp.: dispositius, Sen. Q. N. praef. fin.; cf. Lact. Ira D. 10 med.—Sup. Boëth. Cons. Phil. 4, pros. 2.— Adv.: dispŏsĭte, orderly, methodically:

accusare istum,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 40, § 87:

dicere,

Quint. 10, 7, 12:

exponere,

Vitr. 7 praef. §

18: mundus effectus est (with ordinate),

Lact. 3, 17.— Sup.:

aedificare,

Sid. Ep. 5, 11.

fictĭo, ōnis, f. [fingo] (post-Aug.; esp. freq. in Quint.).

A making, fashioning, forming, formation (cf.:

confictio, figmentum): (animalis) fictio a capite sumit exordium,

Lact. Opif. D. 12:

hominis,

i. e. creation, id. 4, 4; 2, 9:

nominum fictio adjectis, detractis, mutatis litteris,

Quint. 6, 3, 53; 8, 3, 19; Onomatopoiia, id est fictio nominis, id. 8, 6, 31; 9, 1, 5: Furium, veterem poëtam, dedecorasse linguam Latinam hujuscemodi [p. 745] vocum fictionibus, quae, etc., Gell. 18, 11, 2. —

In partic.

A feigning, counterfeiting, disguising:

in figura totius voluntatis fictio est, apparens magis quam confessa,

Quint. 9, 2, 46:

poëtarum,

fictions, Lact. 1, 21 fin.: fictiones personarum, quae prosôpopoiiai dicuntur, Quint. 9, 2, 29:

personae,

id. 9, 3, 89; 11, 1, 39; Vulg. Sap. 7, 13.—

Rhet. t. t., an assumed or fictitious case, a supposition, fiction:

adhuc est subtilior illa ex simili translatio, cum, quod in alia re fieri solet, in aliam mutuantur. Ea dicatur sane fictio,

Quint. 6, 3, 61; cf.: duci argumenta non a confessis tantum, sed etiam a fictione, quod Graeci kath hupothesin vocant, id. 5, 10, 95 Spald.:

est et illa ex ironia fictio, qua usus est C. Caesar, etc.,

id. 6, 3, 91.—

Jurid. t. t.:

fictio legis,

a fictitious assumption in a case, a fiction, Gai. Inst. 3, 56; Dig. 35, 2, 1, § 1; 18; 41, 3, 15. For an account of the fictions in use in the formulas of the Roman law, v. Gai. Inst. 4, 32-38; cf. Savigny, Du Droit Romain, 5, pp. 76-84.

fĭgūrātĭo, ōnis, f. [figuro] (post-Aug.).

A forming, fashioning; shape, form, figure:

nervi hic teretes, illic lati, ut in uno quoque poscit figuratio,

Plin. 11, 37, 88, § 217:

zona duodecim signis conformata exprimit depictam a natura figurationem,

Vitr. 9, 4:

Apollinis,

App. Dogm. Plat. 1.—

Trop.

Imagination, fancy:

si spei figuratione tardius cadit,

Quint. Decl. 12, 27;

vanae,

id. ib. 6, 4.—

Form of a word:

(diurnare) ex ea figuratione est, qua dicimus perennare,

Gell. 17, 2, 16.—

Figurative mode of speaking:

quisquam illorum his figurationibus uteretur, quae Graeci schemata vocant?

Fronto, Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2; Lact. 1, 11, 24; 30.