dignanter

dignanter, Adv. (dignor), gefällig, höflich, gnädig, Vopisc. Tac. 8. § 4. Symm. epist. 5, 63. Ambros. epist. 21, 20. – Superl., Auct. it. Alex. 10 (24)

dignor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a. [dignus], to deem worthy or deserving (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Aliquem aliqua re:

haud equidem tali me dignor honore,

Verg. A. 1, 335; so,

aliquem honore,

Ov. M. 1, 194; 3, 521; Suet. Vesp. 2 fin. al.:

te alio funere,

Verg. A. 11, 169:

hunc mensa, cubili (dea),

id. E. 4, 63:

aliquem non sermone, non visu,

Tac. A. 4, 74 fin.:

libellum veniā,

Ov. Tr. 3, 14, 51; id. Pont. 1, 8, 9 al.—

With inf. as object, like the Gr. axiô and axioumai, to regard as fit, becoming, worthy of one's self, to deign; and with a negative, not to deign, to disdain:

jam nemo suspicere in caeli dignatur lucida templa,

Lucr. 2, 1039; so with a neg., * Cat. 64, 407; Verg. A. 10, 732; 866; 12 464; Ov. M. 10, 158; Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 40; Suet. Ner. 22; id. Vesp. 13 al.—Affirmatively:

quos eximia specie donare natura dignata est,

Curt. 6, 5, 29:

cui se pulcra viro dignetur jungere Dido,

Verg. A. 4, 192; id. E. 6, 1; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 37; id. F. 4, 540; id. Tr. 4, 1, 52; Suet. Vesp. 7; Sen. Contr. 4, 28, 9:

si digneris audire,

Vulg. Judith, 5, 5.—

With double acc.:

o felix si quem dignabitur, inquit, ista virum,

will hold worthy to be her husband, Ov. M. 8, 326; so,

regem nostrum filium,

Curt. 6, 10, 28.—

Ellipt. with one acc. (the inf. to be supplied from the context):

orant succedere muris Dignarique domos (sc. visere),

Stat. Th. 12, 785:

nullo Macedonum dignante Parthorum imperium,

Just. 41, 4.—Hence, dignanter, adv., courteously, with complaisance (post-class. and very rare):

loquentem dignanter audite,

Vop. Tac. 8:

impertire,

Symm. Ep. 5, 63.— Sup. Auct. Itin. Alex. 10.