gradu+demovere

dē-mŏvĕo (often confounded in MSS. and edd. with di-moveo, q. v.), mōvi, mōtum, 2, v. a., to move or turn away; to put away, remove (freq. and good prose).

Lit.:

demoveri et depelli de loco necesse est eum qui deiciatur... neminem statui detrusum, qui non adhibita vi manu demotus et actus praeceps intelligatur,

Cic. Caecin. 17, 49:

ex sua sede,

id. Par. 1, 15; id. Leg. Agr. 2, 29, 81.—With abl. alone, id. Planc. 22, 53:

hostes gradu,

to compel to give ground, Liv. 6, 32; cf.:

sacra statu suo,

id. 9, 29 (al. dimovere); and without abl.: Pompeius vestri facti praejudicio demotus, forced to yield, * Caes. B. C. 2, 32, 2:

flumen solito alveo,

Tac. A. 1, 79:

Silanum Syria,

id. ib. 2, 43:

Pallantem curā rerum,

id. ib. 13, 14:

Burrum praefecturā,

id. ib. 13, 20 al.:

non alteros demovisse, sed utrosque constituisse,

Cic. Sull. 21 fin.; Tac. A. 4, 60; 15, 65:

eā (sc. matre) demotā,

thrust aside, put out of the way, id. ib. 14, 12:

in insulas interdicto igni atque aqua demoti sunt,

id. ib. 6, 30.—

Trop.:

oculos ab alicujus oculis,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 16:

formidine animum perterritum loco et certo de statu demovere,

Cic. Caecin. 15:

aliquem de vera et certa sententia,

to divert, id. Verr. 1, 17 fin.:

aliquem a causa alicujus,

id. Clu. 15, 44:

odium a nobis ac nostris,

id. de Or. 2, 51, 208.