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Desperately

  • 1 perditē

        perditē adv.    [perditus], recklessly, desperately: se gerere.— Desperately, immoderately: amare, T.
    * * *
    desperately, in desperate/unrestrained way; recklessly; violently

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  • 2 miserē

        miserē adv. with comp.    [miser], wretchedly, miserably, pitiably: vivere: ut miserius a vobis recipiatur quam ab illo capta est, L.— Vehemently, desperately: nimis cupio, T.: cupis abire, H.
    * * *
    wretchedly, desperately

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  • 3 despero

    dē-spēro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to be hopeless; to have no hope of, to despair of, to give up (freq. and class.).—Constr. most freq. with de, the acc., or acc. and inf.; less freq. with the dat. or absol.
    (α).
    With de (in Cic. rarely):

    de sua virtute aut de ipsius diligentia,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 40, 4:

    de pugna,

    id. ib. 1, 40, 8:

    de officio imperatoris,

    id. ib. 1, 40, 10,:

    de expugnatione,

    id. ib. 7, 36:

    de salute,

    id. ib. 7, 85, 3:

    de republica,

    Cic. Att. 8, 11, D, §

    6: de summa rerum,

    Liv. 26, 41: de se, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 3; Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 2; 9, 15, 5; Lact. 6, 24, 1; Sen. Tranq. An. 5, 2.—
    (β).
    With acc. (in Caes. only in the part. perf.):

    honores,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 9:

    honorem,

    id. Mur. 21, 43:

    rempublicam,

    id. Fam. 12, 14, 3:

    pacem,

    id. Att. 8, 15, 3:

    voluntariam deditionem,

    Liv. 23, 14:

    membra invicti Glyconis,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 30; Sen. Ep. 29, 3; 104, 12.—In the pass.:

    sive restituimur, sive desperamur,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 7; Quint. 1, 10, 8:

    hujus salus desperanda est,

    Cic. Lael. 24, 90; cf.:

    nil desperandum Teucro duce,

    Hor. Od. 1, 7, 27:

    desperatis nostris rebus,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 24, 4; cf. id. ib. 3, 26, 5:

    desperata salute,

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

    desperato improviso tumultu,

    Liv. 10, 14 et saep.— Middle: desperatis hominibus, who gave themselves up, i. e. were desperately resolved, desperate, Caes. B. G. 7, 3.—
    (γ).
    With acc. and inf.:

    ego non despero fore aliquem aliquando, qui, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 95; id. Div. 2, 21, 48; Quint. 5, 12, 3; Hor. A. P. 150; Ov. M. 9, 724 et saep.—
    (δ).
    With dat.:

    saluti,

    Cic. Clu. 25, 68:

    oppido,

    id. Pis. 34 fin.:

    rebus tuis,

    id. ib. 36, 89:

    suis fortunis,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 12, 3:

    sibi,

    id. ib. 7, 50, 4; Cic. Mur. 21 fin.:

    saluti suae,

    id. Clu. 25.—
    (ε).
    Absol.:

    sive habes aliquam spem de republica sive desperas,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 5; id. Off. 1, 21 fin.; Quint. 2, 4, 10; 12 prooem. § 2; Ov. M. 10, 371 et saep.:

    spem habere a tribuno plebis, a senatu desperasse,

    Cic. Pis. 6.—Hence, *
    1.
    dēspēranter, adv., hopelessly, despairingly:

    loqui secum,

    Cic. Att. 14, 18, 3.—
    2.
    dēspērātus, a, um, P. a., given up, despaired of, irremediable, desperate (most freq. in Cic.):

    exercitum collectum ex senibus desperatis,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 3:

    remedium aegrotae ac prope desperatae reipublicae,

    id. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70; cf.:

    reipublicae morbi,

    id. Sull. 27 fin.:

    collegium,

    id. Leg. 3, 10, 24:

    desperatas pecunias exigere,

    id. Mur. 20 fin. et saep.:

    desperatos vocant, quia corpori suo minime parcunt (of the Christians),

    Lact. 5, 9, 12. —Prov.:

    desperatis Hippocrates vetat adhibere medicinam,

    Cic. Att. 16, 15, 5.— Comp.:

    haec nunc multo desperatiora,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 22.— Sup.:

    perfugium,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 41 fin.: spes, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 7, B, § 2.—
    * Adv., dēspērātē, desperately:

    non desperate sollicitus,

    Aug. Ep. ad Celer. 237.

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  • 4 perdo

    per-do, dĭdi, ditum, 3 (old form of the pres. subj. perduim, Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 6:

    perduis,

    id. Am. 2, 2, 215; id. Capt. 3, 5, 70:

    perduit,

    id. Ep. 1, 1, 64; id. Poen. 3, 4, 29;

    but esp. freq., perduint,

    Plaut. As. 2, 4, 61; id. Aul. 4, 10, 55; id. Curc. 5, 3, 41; id. Cas. 3, 5, 17; id. Most. 3, 1, 138; id. Men. 2, 2, 34; 3, 1, 6; 5, 5, 31; id. Merc. 4, 3, 11; 4, 4, 53; id. Poen. 3, 2, 33; 4, 2, 41; id. Stich. 4, 2, 15; id. Truc. 2, 3, 10; Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 7; id. Hec. 3, 4, 27; id. Phorm. 1, 2, 73; Cic. Deiot. 7, 21; id. Att. 15, 4, 3.—As the pass. of perdo, only pereo, perditus, perire appear to be in good use.—The only classical example of a pass. form in the pres. is:

    perditur haec inter misero lux non sine votis,

    Hor. S. 2, 6, 59 (K. and H. ad loc.), where Lachm., perh. needlessly, reads lux porgitur, the day seems too long for me. —In the pass. perdi, in late Lat.; v. infra), v. a., to make away with; to destroy, ruin; to squander, dissipate, throw away, waste, lose, etc. (class.; syn.: dissipo, perimo, deleo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    aliquem perditum ire,

    Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 5:

    Juppiter fruges perdidit,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 45, 131:

    funditus civitatem,

    id. Att. 6, 1, 5:

    se ipsum penitus,

    id. Fin. 1, 15, 49:

    perdere et affligere cives,

    id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33:

    perdere et pessundare aliquem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 3:

    aliquem capitis,

    i. e. to charge with a capital offence, id. As. 1, 2, 6; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 86:

    sumat, consumat, perdat,

    squander, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 56; so,

    perde et peri,

    Plaut. Truc. 5, 59:

    perdere et profundere,

    to waste, Cic. Fam. 5, 5, 3:

    perdere tempus,

    id. de Or. 3, 36, 146:

    operam,

    id. Mur. 10, 23; cf.:

    oleum et operam,

    id. Fam. 7, 1, 3:

    Decius amisit vitam: at non perdidit,

    Auct. Her. 4, 44, 57:

    cur perdis adulescentem nobis? cur amat? Cur potat?

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 36.—In execrations (very common): di (deaeque omnes) te perduint, may the gods destroy you! See the passages with perduint cited init.—Pass. (late Lat.):

    verbis perderis ipse tuis, Prosp. Epigr.: impii de terrā perdentur,

    Vulg. Prov. 2, 22: quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur, id. Job, 20, 7.—
    II.
    Transf., in gen., to lose utterly or irrecoverably:

    eos (liberos),

    Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 3:

    omnes fructus industriae et fortunae,

    id. ib. 4, 6, 2:

    litem,

    to lose one's cause, id. de Or. 1, 36, 167:

    libertatem,

    id. Rab. Post. 9, 24:

    dextram manum,

    Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 104:

    memoriam,

    Cic. Sen. 7, 21:

    causam,

    id. Rosc. Com. 4, 11:

    spem,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 3:

    vitam,

    Mart. Spect. 13, 2:

    perii hercle! nomen perdidi,

    i. e. I have quite forgotten the name, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 39.— Pass. (late Lat.):

    si principis vita perditur,

    Amm. 14, 5, 4; Hor. S. 2, 6, 59 (v. supra).—Of loss at play:

    ne perdiderit, non cessat perdere lusor,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 451; Juv. 1, 93.—Hence, perdĭtus, a, um, P. a., lost, i. e.,
    A.
    Hopeless, desperate, ruined, past recovery (class.;

    syn. profligatus): perditus sum, i. q. perii,

    I am lost! Plaut. Bacch. 5, 1, 6; id. Rud. 5, 1, 3:

    per fortunas vide, ne puerum perditum perdamus,

    Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5:

    perditus aere alieno,

    id. Phil. 2, 32, 78:

    lacrimis ac maerore perditus,

    id. Mur. 40, 86:

    tu omnium mortalium perditissime,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 26, § 64:

    rebus omnibus perditis,

    id. Caecin. 31, 90:

    senatoria judicia,

    id. Verr. 1, 3, 8:

    valetudo,

    id. Tusc. 5, 10, 29.—
    2.
    In partic., desperately in love; lost, ruined by love ( poet.):

    amore haec perdita est,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 2, 13:

    in puellā,

    Prop. 1, 13, 7:

    amor,

    Cat. 89, 2.—
    B.
    Lost in a moral sense, abandoned, corrupt, profligate, flagitious, incorrigible:

    adulescens perditus ac dissolutus,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 25, 55:

    homo contaminatus, perditus, flagitiosus,

    id. Verr. 2, 3, 58, § 134:

    abjecti homines et perditi,

    id. Mil. 18, 47; id. Cat. 1, 6, 9:

    homo perditā nequitiā,

    id. Clu. 13, 36:

    perdita atque dissoluta consilia,

    id. Agr. 2, 20, 55:

    luxuriae ac lasciviae perditae,

    Suet. Calig. 25:

    nihil fieri potest miserius, nihil perditius, nihil foedius,

    Cic. Att. 8, 11, 4; id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 1; Cat. 42, 13.—Hence, sup.:

    omnium mortalium perditissimus,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 26, § 65; Just. 21, 5, 5.— Adv.: perdĭtē.
    1.
    In an abandoned manner, incorrigibly:

    se gerere,

    Cic. Att. 9, 2, A, 2.—
    2.
    Desperately, excessively:

    amare,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 32:

    conari,

    Quint. 2, 12, 5.

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  • 5 audācter (rarely audāciter)

        audācter (rarely audāciter) adv. with comp. audācius and sup. audācissimē    [audax], boldly, courageously: te monere, T.: subsistere, Cs.: audacius disputabo: dictatorem creare, with confidence, L.—Form audaciter: de aliquā re laturum esse, L.—Rashly, audaciously, desperately: multa facta: audicius exsultare: scelera audacissime facere.—Form audaciter: facere: negare, L.

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  • 6 dē-perdō

        dē-perdō didī, ditus, ere,    to destroy, ruin: sutor inopiā deperditus, i. e. impoverished, Ph.: deperditus alquā, desperately in love with, Pr.: in alquā, Ct.: fletu, exhausted, Ct.—To lose: bona, honestatem: tantum eius opinionis, Cs.: usum linguae, O.: alquid de libertate: alquid Summā, H.

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  • 7 dē-pereō

        dē-pereō iī, itūrus, īre,    to go to ruin, perish, die, be lost, be undone: tempestate deperierant naves, Cs.: exercitūs magna pars, Cs.: qui deperiit minor uno mense, H.: gens hominum vitio deperitura fuit, O.—To be desperately in love: amor<*> mulierculae, L.: hanc, T.: alqm amore, Ct.

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  • 8 dēspērātus

        dēspērātus adj. with comp. and sup.    [P. of despero], given up, despaired of, irremediable, desperate: res p.: desperatas pecunias exigere: fuga.—Prov.: desperatis adhibere medicinam: haec nunc multo desperatiora: desperatissimum perfugium.— Without hope, desperate: homines, Cs.: senes.
    * * *
    desperata -um, desperatior -or -us, desperatissimus -a -um ADJ
    desperate/hopeless; despairing/lacking hope; desperately ill/situated; reckless

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  • 9 per-eō

        per-eō iī or    (rarely) īvī (perīt, Iu.; perīstī, Pr.; perīsse, L., O.), itūrus, īre, to pass away, come to nothing, vanish, disappear, be lost: ecqua inde perisset soror, T.: ne vena periret aquae, O.: lymphae Dolium pereuntis, H.—To pass away, be destroyed, perish: tantam pecuniam tam brevi tempore perire: totum exercitum periturum, N.: Fac pereat vitreo miles ab hoste tuus (at chess), let your knight be taken by a pawn, O.: causae cur perirent (urbes), H.: peritura regna, V.: pereunt sole tepente nives, melt away, O.: telum robigine, H.—To perish, lose life, die: turpiter: ut intellegeres statim tibi esse pereundum: naufragio: hominum manibus, V.: gener<*>sius, H.: a morbo, N.: pereundi mille figurae, forms of death, O.—Fig., to pine away, fall desperately in love: indigno cum Gallus amore peribat, V: quā pereat sagittā, H. —To be lost, fail, be wasted, be spent in vain: ne et oleum et opera perierit: quia multis actiones et res peribant, lawsuits and property were lost, L.: labor, O.: ne nummi pereant, H.: minae, T.—To be lost, be ruined, be undone: meo vitio pereo.— Esp. 1st pers., as an exclamation of despair, I am lost! I'm undone!: ingenio perii, O.: periimus, actum est, we are lost, it is all over with us, T.: peream, si, etc., may I die, if, etc., O.—Fig., of moral qualities, to be lost: virtus, O.: clament periisse pudorem, H.

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  • 10 deamo

    deamare, deamavi, deamatus V TRANS
    love dearly; be passionately/desperately in love with; be delighted with/obliged

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  • 11 desperate

    desperately, hopelessly; tremendously, very

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  • 12 ecflictim

    passionately, desperately, to distraction

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  • 13 efflictim

    passionately, desperately, to distraction

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  • 14 perditim

    desperately, to desperation

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  • 15 deamo

    dĕ-ămo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to be desperately in love with, to love dearly or passionately (ante-class.), "vehementius amare," Non. 97, 21 (cf. depereo).
    I.
    Prop.:

    illa, quam tuus gnatus annos multos deamat, deperit,

    Plaut. Epid. 2, 2, 35; id. Poen. 4, 2, 72; Afran. ap. Non. l. l. (v. 357 Ribbeck): Laber. ap. Charis. l, p. 84 P. (v. 41 Ribbeck).—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Of things, to be quite in love with, delighted with:

    deamavi... lepidissima munera,

    Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 3; cf.:

    dona deamata acceptaque,

    id. Truc. 4, 1, 5: deamo te, Syre, I am greatly obliged to you, * Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 21.

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  • 16 deperditus

    dē-perdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v a.
    I.
    To destroy, ruin (so only in the part. perf., and rare):

    sator inopia deperditus,

    i. e. impoverished, Phaedr. 1, 14, 1:

    ut est deperditus Io,

    i. e. desperately in love, Prop. 2, 30, 29 (3, 28, 29 M.); cf.

    amore,

    Suet. Dom. 3:

    deperditum intelligitur, quod in rerum natura esse desiit,

    Gai. Dig. 5, 3, 21.—More freq. and class.,
    II.
    To lose:

    qui non solum bona sed etiam honestatem miseri deperdiderunt,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 11:

    nihil sui,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 8:

    vitalem sensum,

    Lucr. 3, 526:

    folia (arbores),

    Plin. 16, 22, 34, § 82:

    colorem,

    id. 37, 8, 33, § 112 al.:

    gratiam,

    Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 9:

    tantum ejus opinionis,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 54 fin.:

    bonam famam,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 61:

    usum linguae,

    Ov. M. 5, 562 al.:

    ne quid ex his deperdat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 14; cf.:

    paucos ex suis (nostri),

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28 fin.:

    ne quid apud vos de existimatione sua deperderet,

    Cic. Font. 9, 19; so,

    quid de libertate,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 30:

    nihil de jure civitatis,

    id. Caecin. 35, 102:

    paululum admodum de celeritate (stilus),

    Quint. 10, 7, 24:

    ne quid Summa deperdat metuens, aut ampliet ut rem,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 32:

    quod ex naufragio expulsum est... non est in derelicto, sed in deperdito,

    Dig. 41, 2, 21; cf. ib. 5, 3, 21 (for the pass. of deperdo, depereo is used).—Hence, * dēperdĭtus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to no. II.), corrupt, abandoned, Gell. 5, 1, 3.

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  • 17 deperdo

    dē-perdo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v a.
    I.
    To destroy, ruin (so only in the part. perf., and rare):

    sator inopia deperditus,

    i. e. impoverished, Phaedr. 1, 14, 1:

    ut est deperditus Io,

    i. e. desperately in love, Prop. 2, 30, 29 (3, 28, 29 M.); cf.

    amore,

    Suet. Dom. 3:

    deperditum intelligitur, quod in rerum natura esse desiit,

    Gai. Dig. 5, 3, 21.—More freq. and class.,
    II.
    To lose:

    qui non solum bona sed etiam honestatem miseri deperdiderunt,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 11:

    nihil sui,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 43, 8:

    vitalem sensum,

    Lucr. 3, 526:

    folia (arbores),

    Plin. 16, 22, 34, § 82:

    colorem,

    id. 37, 8, 33, § 112 al.:

    gratiam,

    Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 9:

    tantum ejus opinionis,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 54 fin.:

    bonam famam,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 61:

    usum linguae,

    Ov. M. 5, 562 al.:

    ne quid ex his deperdat,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 14; cf.:

    paucos ex suis (nostri),

    Caes. B. G. 3, 28 fin.:

    ne quid apud vos de existimatione sua deperderet,

    Cic. Font. 9, 19; so,

    quid de libertate,

    id. Verr. 2, 2, 30:

    nihil de jure civitatis,

    id. Caecin. 35, 102:

    paululum admodum de celeritate (stilus),

    Quint. 10, 7, 24:

    ne quid Summa deperdat metuens, aut ampliet ut rem,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 32:

    quod ex naufragio expulsum est... non est in derelicto, sed in deperdito,

    Dig. 41, 2, 21; cf. ib. 5, 3, 21 (for the pass. of deperdo, depereo is used).—Hence, * dēperdĭtus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to no. II.), corrupt, abandoned, Gell. 5, 1, 3.

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  • 18 depereo

    dē-pĕrĕo, ii ( fut. deperiet for -ibit, Vulg. Eccl. 31, 7), 4, v. n., to go to ruin, perish, die; to be lost, undone.
    I.
    In gen. (class.):

    neque adaugescit quicquam neque deperit inde (sc. de materia),

    Lucr. 2, 296:

    tempestate naves,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 23:

    perexigua pars illius exercitus superest, magna pars deperiit,

    id. B. C. 3, 87; cf. id. B. G. 7, 31, 4: si servus deperisset, had been lost (by death or flight), Cic. Top. 3, 15:

    ut scida ne qua depereat,

    id. Att. 1, 20 fin.:

    qui deperiit minor uno mense vel anno,

    has died, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 40 et saep.:

    (auro) rerum uni nihil igne deperit,

    Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 59:

    decor vultus ejus deperiit,

    faded, Vulg. Jacob. 1, 11.—
    II.
    In partic., to be desperately in love with, dying with love for a person (not in Cic., neither in Verg., Hor., nor Ovid, but freq. in Plaut.).—Constr.: aliquem (amore), more rarely alicujus amore, in aliquo; and absol.:

    ut hic te efflictim deperit,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19:

    aliquam (with deamare),

    id. Ep. 2, 2, 35:

    aliquam,

    id. Cas. 1, 1, 19; id. Bac. 3, 3, 66 et saep.; Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 14;

    Catull. 100, 2: amore aliquam deperire,

    Plaut. Cist. 1, 3, 43; cf.:

    illum deperit impotente amore, Catull. 35, 12: amore mulierculae,

    Liv. 27, 15; cf.:

    amore sui,

    Suet. Vesp. 22:

    cum laceratum corpus, in quo deperibat, intueretur,

    Curt. 8, 6, 8.— Absol.:

    rogas? deperit,

    Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 62.

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  • 19 desperanter

    dēspēranter, adv., desperately, hopelessly, v. despero fin., no. 1.

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  • 20 effligo

    ef-flīgo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to strike dead, to kill, destroy (very rare):

    qui filium misit ad effligendum Pompeium,

    Cic. Att. 9, 19, 2:

    nisi pedatu tertio omnis efflixero (with obtruncavero and occidero),

    Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 50; cf.:

    rabidos canes (with caedere),

    Sen. Ira, 1, 15:

    viperas et natrices,

    id. ib. 2, 31 fin.; Plaut. As. 4, 2, 9.—Hence,
    1.
    efflictim, adv., to death, desperately. —With amare, deperire, etc., i. e. amare usque donicum effligatur, Prob. ap. Charis. p. 178 (ante-class.); Naev. ap. Charis. l. l.; Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 19 (twice); id. Cas. prol. 49; id. Poen. prol. 96; 5, 2, 15; Laber. and Pompon. ap. Non. 104, 24 sq.—
    2.
    efflicte, in like sense (post-class.):

    cupere aliquid,

    App. M. 5, p. 171, 36:

    diligere,

    Symm. Ep. 1, 84.

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  • desperately — [adv1] severely badly, carelessly, dangerously, dramatically, fiercely, gravely, greatly, harmfully, hysterically, like crazy*, like mad*, perilously, seriously; concept 569 Ant. calmly, easily, trivially desperately [adv2] frightfully… …   New thesaurus

  • desperately — des|pe|rate|ly [ˈdespərıtli] adv 1.) in a desperate way ▪ The doctors tried desperately to save her life. ▪ He looked round desperately for someone to help him. 2.) very or very much desperately want/need ▪ The crops desperately need rain.… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • desperately — adverb 1 in a desperate way: He looked round desperately for someone to help him. | try desperately: The doctors were trying desperately to save her life. 2 very much: Joe s work is desperately important to him. | desperately need: He desperately …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • desperately — adverb Date: circa 1547 1. in a desperate manner < struggling desperately > 2. extremely, terribly < desperately tired > < desperately important > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • desperately — des|per|ate|ly [ desp(ə)rətli ] adverb ** 1. ) in a very worried or angry way: She tried desperately to push him away. 2. ) very much: John desperately wanted to go to college. a ) very: I was desperately lonely …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • desperately — adverb 1) he screamed desperately for help Syn: in desperation, in despair, despairingly, in anguish, in distress; wretchedly, hopelessly, desolately, forlornly 2) they are desperately ill Syn: seriously, critically …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • desperately */*/ — UK [ˈdesp(ə)rət(ə)lɪ] / US adverb 1) in a very worried or angry way She tried desperately to push him away. 2) a) very much John desperately wanted to go to university. b) very I was desperately lonely …   English dictionary

  • desperately — adv. Desperately is used with these adjectives: ↑afraid, ↑anxious, ↑disappointed, ↑disappointing, ↑homesick, ↑hungry, ↑ill, ↑keen, ↑lonely, ↑nervous, ↑sad, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

  • desperately — adverb 1. with great urgency (Freq. 9) health care reform is needed urgently the soil desperately needed potash • Syn: ↑urgently • Derived from adjective: ↑desperate, ↑urgent ( …   Useful english dictionary

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