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  • 1 utique

    1.
    ŭtĭ-quĕ, and that, v. ut (uti) and que.
    2.
    ŭtĭ-quĕ, adv. [ut, I., and therefore, prop., in whatever way, be it as it may; hence], a restrictive particle of confirmation, in any case, at any rate, certainly, surely, assuredly, by all means, particularly, especially, at least, without fail, undoubtedly, etc., = certe, saltem (good prose;

    in Cic. for the most part only in epistolary style): velim, Varronis et Lollii mittas laudationem, Lollii utique,

    Cic. Att. 13, 48, 2:

    illud vero utique scire cupio,

    id. ib. 13, 13, 1;

    5, 9, 2: nam et Piliae satisfaciendum est et utique Atticae,

    id. ib. 12, 8 fin.:

    Pythagoras et Plato, quo in somnis certiora videamus, praeparatos quodam cultu atque victu proficisci ad dormiendum jubent: faba quidem Pythagorei utique abstinere,

    id. Div. 2, 58, 119:

    quo die venies, utique cum tuis apud me sis,

    id. Att. 4, 4, 2; 5, 1, 2:

    hoc tibi mando... ut pugnes, ne intercaletur: annum quidem utique teneto,

    id. ib. 5, 9, 2:

    haec ad nostram consuetudinem sunt levia... at in Graeciā, utique olim, magnae laudi erant,

    Nep. Epam. 2, 3; Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 3: saevire inde utique consulum [p. 1947] alter patresque, Liv. 2, 27, 7:

    ne ipsi quidem inviolati erant, utique postremis mensibus,

    id. 3, 65, 8; 23, 48, 5:

    nomen, de quo ambigitur, utique in aliā re certum est,

    Quint. 7, 3, 10; Sen. Ep. 102, 17; Cels. 5, 26, 22; Col. 1, 4, 8: sciendum est, non omnes hac severitate tractari debere, sed utique humiliores, only, merely, = duntaxat, Dig. 26, 10, 3 fin. —
    (β).
    With negatives (freq. only in post-Aug. writers, esp. in Quint.;

    perh. not in Cic.): concurrunt ad eum legati, monentes, ne utique experiri vellet imperium,

    by no means, Liv. 2, 59, 4:

    ut iterum periremus... nec ad perniciem nostram Carthaginensi utique aut duce aut exercitu opus esse,

    not even, id. 28, 39, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.; 8, 10, 11;

    9, 16, 16: utique numquam,

    id. 9, 19, 15:

    sapienti propositum est in vitā agendā, non utique, quod tentat, efficere, sed omnino recte facere: gubernatori propositum est, utique navem in portum perducere,

    Sen. Ep. 85, 27:

    haec ut honestior causa, ita non utique prior est,

    Quint. 3, 2, 2:

    non utique accedit parti, quod universum est,

    id. 12, 2, 18:

    ut cogitatio non utique melior sit ea, sed tutior,

    id. 10, 7, 19 et saep.:

    nec ignoro igitur quos transeo, nec utique damno, etc.,

    id. 10, 1, 57:

    neque utique cor ejus vulneratum esse, qui perit,

    id. 6, 9, 7; Varr. R. R. 1, 4, 21.

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  • 2 dēficiō

        dēficiō fēcī, fectus, ere （ fut perf. defexit, old form. in L.—Pass., usu. deficior; dēfit, T., Enn. ap. C., V.; dēfierī, T.; dēfīet, L.)    [de + facio].— Intrans, to withdraw, revolt, desert, fall off: civitates quae defecerant, Cs.: milites ne deficerent, S.: ab Aeduis, Cs.: a re p.: a patribus ad plebem, to go over, L.: ad Poenos, desert, L. — Of things, to be wanting, be absent, fail, cease, disappear, be lost, run out: non frumentum deficere poterat, Cs.: ex arboribus frons, Cs.: ne (mihi) vox viresque deficerent: non deficiente crumenā, H.: ne Deficeret navis, be overwhelmed, V.: quod plena luna defecisset, was eclipsed: ignem Deficere videbat, dying out, V.: quā deficit ignis, ceases to destroy, V.: Deficit ars, is exhausted, O.: nil apud me tibi defieri patiar, T.: Lac mihi non aestate novum defit, V.: nunquamne causa defiet, cur, etc.? L. — Of persons, to fail, sink, faint, be insufficient, be missing: quod multi Gallicis tot bellis defecerant, had been lost, Cs.: siquid deficias, i. e. need aid, T.: deficientibus animis, L.: O dubiis ne defice rebus, fail (me) in perplexity, V.— To fail, be bankrupt: Matho deficit, Iu.: te memorare, cease, Tb.—Fig., to withdraw, depart, forsake, be parted, abandon, desert: a virtute: si utilitas ab amicitiā defecerit.— To fail, be wanting, fall short: animo, be disheartened, Cs.: ne unā plagā acceptā patres deficerent: in limine primo, V.: illis legibus populus R. prior non deficiet, si prior defexit, etc., prove false, violate, L. (old form.): neque comminus pugnando deficiebant, Cs.— Trans, to leave, desert, fail, abandon (of things): cum vires nostros deficerent, Cs.: me Leontina civitas: me vox, latera deficiant, si, etc.: cum deficit orbom (Sol), is eclipsed, O.: sol defectus lumine, Tb.: si quem proles defecerit omnis, i. e. perish, V.: cum aquilifer a viribus deficeretur, Cs.: mulier ratione deficitur: animo defici, Cu.: defecta vigore cervix, O.: nec me deficiet rogitare, etc., nor will I fail, Pr.
    * * *
    I
    deficere, defeci, defectus V INTRANS
    fail/falter; run short/out; grow weak/faint; come to end; revolt/rebel, defect; pass away; become extinct, die/fade out; subside/sink; suffer eclipse, wane
    II
    deficere, defeci, defectus V TRANS
    fail, disappoint, let down; leave without a sufficiency; cease to be available; (PASS) be left without/wanting, lack; have shortcomings; L:come to nothing

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  • 3 fallō

        fallō fefellī, falsus, ere    [1 FAL-], to trip, cause to fall: glacies fallit pedes, L.: alqm, Cu.—Fig., to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude, fail, disappoint: alquem dolis, T.: falli te sinas Techinis, T.: Nec sidus regione viae (nos) fefellit, misled, V.: credentem puellam, O.: sui fallendi causā factum, Cs.: nisi me forte fallo: nisi me fallit animus: nisi me omnia fallunt, unless I utterly mistake: neque eum prima opinio fefellit, Cs.: nisi quid me fallit: mentīs monstro, V.: cum maxime fallunt, id agunt, ut, etc.: non in sortitione fallere: ne falleret bis relata eadem res, lead into error, L.: ut de indutiis fallendo impetrarent, Cs.: numquam fallentis termes olivae, H.: nescia fallere vita, without guile, V.: eas fallam, ut ab illis fallimur, T.— Pass reflex., to be deceived, err, mistake, deceive oneself: Falsus es, T.: neque ea res falsum me habuit, did not deceive me, S.: errore quodam fallimur: quā (spe) possumus falli: deus falli quo potuit?: nisi fallor, V.: aut ego fallor, or I am far wrong, H.—Impers., with acc, to mistake, be deceived: nisi me fallit: nec eum fefellit.— To violate, break, betray, deceive, disappoint: fidem hosti datam: meam spem: si res opinionem meam fefellerit: mandata mariti, O.: foedus ac fidem, L.: promissum, Cu.: tu faciem illius Falle dolo, put on, V.: retia, avoid, O.: quā signa sequendi Falleret error, confound, V.— To deceive in swearing, swear falsely, be perjured: si sciens fallo: si falleret, precatus Deos, ita se mactarent, L.: expedit matris cineres opertos Fallere, swear falsely by, H.: dominorum dextras, faith pledged to, etc., V.— To lie concealed, be unseen, escape notice, remain undiscovered, elude: per biennium, L.: ne quid falleret Volturno ad urbem missum, L.: ne falleret ad urbem incedens, arrive secretly, L.: qui natus moriensque fefellit, in obscurity, H.: veneno, infuse undetected, V.: bonus longe fallente sagittā, V.: nequiquam fallis dea, escape recognition, V.: neque hoc te fallit, quam multa sint, etc., nor do you fail to see: custodes, L.: deos, O.: nec nos via fallet euntīs, V.: me nec fallunt iussa Iovis, nor do I fail to recognize, V.: nec quicquam eos fallebat, L.: segetis fides meae Fulgentem Falli sorte beatior, i. e. is a happier lot, though he knows it not, etc., H.: neutros fefellit hostīs appropinquare, L.: in lege nullā esse eiusmodi caput te non fallit: neque vero Caesarem fefellit, quin, etc., Cs.— To lighten, appease, silence, beguile: medias sermonibus horas, O.: somno curam, H.: austerum studio fallente laborem, H.
    * * *
    fallere, fefelli, falsus V
    deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken, beguile, drive away; fail; cheat

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  • 4 cado

    cădo, cĕcĭdi, cāsum, 3 ( part. pres. gen. plur. cadentūm, Verg. A. 10, 674; 12, 410), v. n. [cf. Sanscr. çad-, to fall away].
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In an extended sense, to be driven or carried by one ' s weight from a higher to a lower point, to fall down, be precipitated, sink down, go down, sink, fall (so mostly poet.; in prose, in place of it, the compounds decĭdo, occĭdo, excĭdo, etc.; cf. also ruo, labor;

    opp. surgo, sto): tum arbores in te cadent,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 25: (aves) praecipites cadunt in terram aut in aquam, fall headlong to the earth or into the water, Lucr. 6, 745; cf. id. 6, 828;

    imitated by Verg.: (apes) praecipites cadunt,

    Verg. G. 4, 80:

    nimbus, Ut picis e caelo demissum flumen, in undas Sic cadit, etc.,

    Lucr. 6, 258:

    cadit in terras vis flammea,

    id. 2, 215; so with in, id. 2, 209; 4, 1282; 6, 1006; 6, 1125; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 64:

    in patrios pedes,

    Ov. F. 2, 832.—With a different meaning:

    omnes plerumque cadunt in vulnus,

    in the direction of, towards their wound, Lucr. 4, 1049; cf.:

    prolapsa in vulnus moribunda cecidit,

    Liv. 1, 58, 11:

    cadit in vultus,

    Ov. M. 5, 292:

    in pectus,

    id. ib. 4, 579.—Less freq. with ad:

    ad terras,

    Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 216:

    ad terram,

    Quint. 5, 10, 84.—The place from which is designated by ab, ex, de:

    a summo cadere,

    Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 15:

    a mento cadit manus,

    Ov. F. 3, 20:

    aves ab alto,

    Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 112:

    ut cadat (avis) e regione loci,

    Lucr. 6, 824:

    ex arbore,

    Plin. 17, 20, 34, § 148; Dig. 50, 16, 30, § 4; 18, 1, 80, § 2:

    cecidisse de equo dicitur,

    Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

    cadere de equo,

    Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 125 (for which Cæsar, Nepos, and Pliny employ decidere):

    de manibus arma cecidissent,

    Cic. Phil. 14, 7, 21; cf.:

    de manibus civium delapsa arma ipsa ceciderunt,

    id. Off. 1, 22, 77:

    cadunt altis de montibus umbrae,

    Verg. E. 1, 84:

    de caelo,

    Lucr. 5, 791; Ov. M. 2, 322:

    de matre (i. e. nasci),

    Claud. in Rufin. 1, 92.—With per:

    per inane profundum,

    Lucr. 2, 222:

    per aquas,

    id. 2, 230:

    per salebras altaque saxa,

    Mart. 11, 91; cf.:

    imbre per indignas usque cadente genas,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 18.—With the adverb altius: altius atque cadant summotis nubibus imbres, and poured forth from a greater height, etc., Verg. E. 6, 38.—And absol.:

    folia nunc cadunt,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 24; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12; Lucr. 6, 297:

    ut pluere in multis regionibus et cadere imbres,

    id. 6, 415:

    cadens nix,

    id. 3, 21; 3, 402:

    velut si prolapsus cecidisset,

    Liv. 1, 56, 12: quaeque ita concus [p. 259] sa est, ut jam casura putetur, Ov. P. 2, 3, 59:

    cadentem Sustinuisse,

    id. M. 8, 148:

    saepius, of epileptics,

    Plin. Val. 12, 58:

    casuri, si leviter excutiantur, flosculi,

    Quint. 12, 10, 73.—
    2.
    Esp.
    a.
    Of heavenly bodies, to decline, set (opp. orior), Ov. F. 1, 295:

    oceani finem juxta solemque cadentem,

    Verg. A. 4, 480; 8, 59; Tac. G. 45:

    soli subjecta cadenti arva,

    Avien. Descr. Orb. 273; cf. Tac. Agr. 12:

    quā (nocte) tristis Orion cadit,

    Hor. Epod. 10, 10:

    Arcturus cadens,

    id. C. 3, 1, 27.—
    b.
    To separate from something by falling, to fall off or away, fall out, to drop off, be shed, etc.:

    nam tum dentes mihi cadebant primulum,

    Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 57:

    dentes cadere imperat aetas,

    Lucr. 5, 671; Sen. Ep. 12, 3; 83, 3:

    pueri qui primus ceciderit dens,

    Plin. 28, 4, 9, § 41:

    barba,

    Verg. E. 1, 29:

    quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo Lapsa cadunt folia,

    id. A. 6, 310; cf. Cat. 11, 22; Hor. A. P. 61:

    lanigeris gregibus Sponte suā lanae cadunt,

    Ov. M. 7, 541:

    saetae,

    id. ib. 14, 303:

    quadrupedibus pilum cadere,

    Plin. 11, 39, 94, § 231:

    poma,

    Ov. M. 7, 586:

    cecidere manu quas legerat, herbae,

    id. ib. 14, 350:

    elapsae manibus cecidere tabellae,

    id. ib. 9, 571:

    et colus et fusus digitis cecidere remissis,

    id. ib. 4, 229.—
    c.
    Of a stream, to fall, empty itself:

    amnis Aretho cadit in sinum maris,

    Liv. 38, 4, 3; 38, 13, 6; 44, 31, 4:

    flumina in pontum cadent,

    Sen. Med. 406:

    flumina in Hebrum cadentia,

    Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 50:

    tandem in alterum amnem cadit,

    Curt. 6, 4, 6.—
    d.
    Of dice, to be thrown or cast; to turn up:

    illud, quod cecidit forte,

    Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 23 sq.; Liv. 2, 12, 16.—
    e.
    Alicui (alicujus) ad pedes, to fall at one ' s feet in supplication, etc. (post-class. for abicio, proicio), Sen. Contr. 1, 1, 19; Eutr. 4, 7; Aug. Serm. 143, 4; Vulg. Joan. 11, 32 al.—
    f.
    Super collum allcujus, to embrace (late Lat.), Vulg. Luc. 15, 20.—
    B.
    In a more restricted sense.
    1.
    To fall, to fall down, drop, fall to, be precipitated, etc.; to sink down, to sink, settle (the usual class. signif. in prose and poetry):

    cadere in plano,

    Ov. Tr. 3, 4, 17 sq.:

    deorsum,

    Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89:

    uspiam,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12:

    Brutus, velut si prolapsus cecidisset,

    Liv. 1, 56, 12; cf. id. 5, 21, 16; 1, 58, 12:

    dum timent, ne aliquando cadant, semper jacent,

    Quint. 8, 5, 32:

    sinistrā manu sinum ad ima crura deduxit (Caesar), quo honestius caderet,

    Suet. Caes. 82:

    cadere supinus,

    id. Aug. 43 fin.:

    in pectus pronus,

    Ov. M. 4, 579:

    cadunt toti montes,

    Lucr. 6, 546:

    radicitus exturbata (pinus) prona cadit,

    Cat. 64, 109:

    concussae cadunt urbes,

    Lucr. 5, 1236:

    casura moenia Troum,

    Ov. M. 13, 375; id. H. 13, 71:

    multaque praeterea ceciderunt moenia magnis motibus in terris,

    Lucr. 6, 588: languescunt omnia membra;

    bracchia palpebraeque cadunt,

    their arms and eyelids fall, id. 4, 953; 3, 596; so,

    ceciderunt artus,

    id. 3, 453:

    sed tibi tamen oculi, voltus, verba cecidissent,

    Cic. Dom. 52, 133; cf.:

    oculos vigiliā fatigatos cadentesque in opere detineo,

    Sen. Ep. 8, 1:

    patriae cecidere manus,

    Verg. A. 6, 33:

    cur facunda parum decoro Inter verba cadit lingua silentio?

    Hor. C. 4, 1, 36:

    cecidere illis animique manusque,

    Ov. M. 7, 347; Val. Fl. 1, 300; cf. II. F. infra.—
    2.
    In a pregn. signif. (as in most langg., to fall in battle, to die), to fall so as to be unable to rise, to fall dead, to fall, die (opp. vivere), Prop. 2 (3), 28, 42 (usu. of those who die in battle;

    hence most freq. in the histt.): hostes crebri cadunt,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 79 sq.:

    aut in acie cadendum fuit aut in aliquas insidias incidendum,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 3, 3; Curt. 4, 1, 28; Ov. M. 7, 142:

    ut cum dignitate potius cadamus quam cum ignominiā serviamus,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 14, 35:

    pauci de nostris cadunt,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 15; id. B. C. 3, 53:

    optimus quisque cadere aut sauciari,

    Sall. J. 92, 8; so id. C. 60, 6; id. J. 54, 10; Nep. Paus. 1, 2; id. Thras. 2, 7; id. Dat. 1, 2; 6, 1; 8, 3; Liv. 10, 35, 15 and 19; 21, 7, 10; 23, 21, 7; 29, 14, 8; Tac. G. 33; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 27; Ov. M. 7, 142:

    per acies,

    Tac. A. 1, 2:

    pro patriā,

    Quint. 2, 15, 29:

    ante diem,

    Verg. A. 4, 620:

    bipenni,

    Ov. M. 12, 611:

    ense,

    Val. Fl. 1, 812.—Not in battle:

    inque pio cadit officio,

    Ov. M. 6, 250.—With abl. of means or instrument:

    suoque Marte (i. e. suā manu) cadunt,

    Ov. M. 3, 123; cf. Tac. A. 3, 42 fin.:

    suā manu cecidit,

    fell by his own hand, id. ib. 15, 71:

    exitu voluntario,

    id. H. 1, 40:

    muliebri fraude cadere,

    id. A. 2, 71: cecidere justā Morte Centauri, cecidit tremendae Flamma Chimaerae, Hor. C. 4, 2, 14 sq.:

    manu femineā,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1179:

    femineo Marte,

    Ov. M. 12, 610.—With abl. of agent with ab:

    torqueor, infesto ne vir ab hoste cadat,

    should be slain by, Ov. H. 9, 36; so id. M. 5, 192; Suet. Oth. 5:

    a centurione volneribus adversis tamquam in pugnā,

    Tac. A. 16, 9.—And without ab:

    barbarae postquam cecidere turmae Thessalo victore,

    Hor. C. 2, 4, 9; imitated by Claudian, IV. Cons. Hon. 89; Grat. Cyn. 315.—
    b.
    Of victims, to be slain or offered, to be sacrificed, to fall ( poet.):

    multa tibi ante aras nostrā cadet hostia dextrā,

    Verg. A. 1, 334:

    si tener pleno cadit haedus anno,

    Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 23; 4, 1, 15; Ov. M. 7, 162; 13, 615; id. F. 4, 653.—
    3.
    In mal. part., = succumbo, to yield to, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 104; Tib. 4, 10, 2; Sen. Contr. 1, 3, 7.—
    4.
    Matre cadens, just born ( poet.), Val. Fl. 1, 355; cf. of the custom of laying the new-born child at the father's feet: tellure cadens. Stat. S. 1, 2, 209; 5, 5, 69.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To come or fall under, to fall, to be subject or exposed to something (more rare than its compound incidere, but class.); constr. usually with sub or in, sometimes with ad:

    sub sensus cadere nostros,

    i. e. to be perceived by the senses, Lucr. 1, 448:

    sub sensum,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 48: in cernendi sensum. id. Tim. 3:

    sub oculos,

    id. Or. 3, 9:

    in conspectum,

    to become visible, id. Tusc. 1, 22, 50:

    sub aurium mensuram,

    id. Or. 20, 67:

    sponte suā (genus humanum) cecidit sub leges artaque jura,

    subjected itself to law and the force of right, Lucr. 5, 1146; so id. 3, 848:

    ad servitia,

    Liv. 1, 40, 3:

    utrorum ad regna,

    Lucr. 3, 836; so,

    sub imperium dicionemque Romanorum,

    Cic. Font. 5, 12 (1, 2):

    in potestatem unius,

    id. Att. 8, 3, 2:

    in cogitationem,

    to suggest itself to the thoughts, id. N. D. 1, 9, 21:

    in hominum disceptationem,

    id. de Or. 2, 2, 5:

    in deliberationem,

    id. Off. 1, 3, 9:

    in offensionem alicujus,

    id. N. D. 1, 30, 85:

    in morbum,

    id. Tusc. 1, 32, 79:

    in suspitionem alicujus,

    Nep. Paus. 2, 6:

    in calumniam,

    Quint. 9, 4, 57:

    abrupte cadere in narrationem,

    id. 4, 1, 79:

    in peccatum,

    Aug. in Psa. 65, 13.—
    B.
    In gen.: in or sub aliquem or aliquid, to belong to any object, to be in accordance with, agree with, refer to, be suitable to, to fit, suit, become (so esp. freq. in philos. and rhet. lang.):

    non cadit in hos mores, non in hunc pudorem, non in hanc vitam, non in hunc hominem ista suspitio,

    Cic. Sull. 27, 75:

    cadit ergo in bonum virum mentiri, emolumenti sui causā?

    id. Off. 3, 20, 81; so id. Cael. 29, 69; id. Har. Resp. 26, 56:

    haec Academica... in personas non cadebant,

    id. Att. 13, 19, 5:

    qui pedes in orationem non cadere quī possunt?

    id. Or. 56, 188:

    neque in unam formam cadunt omnia,

    id. ib. 11, 37; 57, 191; 27, 95; id. de Or. 3, 47, 182; Quint. 3, 7, 6; 4, 2, 37; 4, 2, 93; 6, prooem. § 5; 7, 2, 30 and 31; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 82:

    heu, cadit in quemquam tantum scelus?

    Verg. E. 9, 17; Cic. Or. 27, 95; 11, 37; Quint. 3, 5, 16; 3, 6, 91; 5, 10, 30; 6, 3, 52; 7, 2, 31; 9, 1, 7;

    9, 3, 92: hoc quoque in rerum naturam cadit, ut, etc.,

    id. 2, 17, 32:

    in iis rebus, quae sub eandem rationem cadunt,

    Cic. Inv. 1, 30, 47; Quint. 8, 3, 56.—
    C.
    To fall upon a definite time (rare):

    considera, ne in alienissimum tempus cadat adventus tuus,

    Cic. Fam. 15, 14, 4:

    in id saeculum Romuli cecidit aetas, cum, etc.,

    id. Rep. 2, 10, 18.—Hence, in mercantile lang., of payments, to fall due: in eam diem cadere ( were due) nummos, qui a Quinto debentur, Cic. Att. 15, 20, 4.—
    D.
    (Acc. to I. 1. e.) Alicui, to fall to one (as by lot), fall to one ' s lot, happen to one, befall; and absol. (for accidere), to happen, come to pass, occur, result, turn out, fall out (esp. in an unexpected manner; cf. accido; very freq. in prose and poetry).
    1.
    Alicui:

    nihil ipsis jure incommodi cadere possit,

    Cic. Quint. 16, 51:

    hoc cecidit mihi peropportune, quod, etc.,

    id. de Or. 2, 4, 15; id. Att. 3, 1:

    insperanti mihi, cecidit, ut, etc.,

    id. de Or. 1, 21, 96; id. Att. 8, 3, 6; id. Mil. 30, 81:

    mihi omnia semper honesta et jucunda ceciderunt,

    id. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 1:

    sunt, quibus ad portas cecidit custodia sorti,

    Verg. G. 4, 165:

    haec aliis maledicta cadant,

    Tib. 1, 6, 85:

    neu tibi pro vano verba benigna cadunt,

    Prop. 1, 10, 24:

    ut illis... voluptas cadat dura inter saepe pericla,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 40: verba cadentia, uttered at random, id. Ep. 1, 18, 12.—
    2.
    Ab sol., Afran. ap. Charis. p. 195 P.;

    Cic. Leg.2, 13, 33: verebar quorsum id casurum esset,

    how it would turn out, id. Att. 3, 24:

    aliorsum vota ceciderunt,

    Flor. 2, 4, 5:

    cum aliter res cecidisset ac putasses,

    had turned out differently from what was expected, Cic. Fam. 5, 19, 1:

    sane ita cadebat ut vellem,

    id. Att. 3, 7, 1; id. Div. 2, 52, 107; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 3; Cic. Verr. 1, 2, 5; Caes. B. C. 3, 73, Nep. Milt. 2, 5 Dähne:

    cum, quae tum maxime acciderant, casura praemonens, a furioso incepto eos deterreret,

    Liv. 36, 34, 3; 22, 40, 3; 35, 13, 9; 38, 46, 6; Plin. Pan. 31, 1; Tac. A. 2, 80; 6, 8; Suet. Tib. 14 al.; Verg. A. 2, 709:

    ut omnia fortiter fiant, feliciter cadant,

    Sen. Suas. 2, p. 14:

    multa. fortuito in melius casura,

    Tac. A. 2, 77.—With adj.:

    si non omnia caderent secunda,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 73:

    vota cadunt, i.e. rata sunt,

    are fulfilled, realized, Tib. 2, 2, 17 (diff. from Prop. 1, 17, 4; v. under F.).—
    3.
    With in and acc.: nimia illa libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit (cf. metaballei), Cic. Rep. 1, 44, 68.—Esp.: in (ad) irritum or cassum, to be frustrated, fail, be or remain fruitless:

    omnia in cassum cadunt,

    Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 147; Lucr. 2, 1166:

    ad irritum cadens spes,

    Liv. 2, 6, 1; so Tac. H. 3, 26:

    in irritum,

    id. A. 15, 39; cf. with irritus, adj.:

    ut irrita promissa ejus caderent,

    Liv. 2, 31, 5:

    haud irritae cecidere minae,

    id. 6, 35, 10.—
    E.
    To fall, to become less (in strength, power, worth, etc.), to decrease, diminish, lessen:

    cadunt vires,

    Lucr. 5, 410:

    mercenarii milites pretia militiae casura in pace aegre ferebant,

    Liv. 34, 36, 7.—More freq. in an extended signif. (acc. to I. B. 2.),
    F. 1.
    In gen.: pellis item cecidit, vestis contempta ferina. declined in value, Lucr. 5, 1417:

    turpius est enim privatim cadere (i. e. fortunis everti) quam publice,

    Cic. Att. 16, 15, 6; so id. Fam. 6, 10, 2:

    atque ea quidem tua laus pariter cum re publicā cecidit,

    id. Off. 2, 13, 45:

    tanta civitas, si cadet,

    id. Har. Resp. 20, 42:

    huc cecidisse Germanici exercitus gloriam, ut, etc.,

    Tac. H. 3, 13:

    non tibi ingredienti fines ira cecidit?

    Liv. 2, 40, 7; Pers. 5, 91:

    amicitia nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur,

    Cic. Lael. 7, 23:

    animus,

    to fail, Liv. 1, 11, 3; Ov. M. 11, 537; cf. id. ib. 7, 347:

    non debemus ita cadere animis, etc.,

    to lose courage, be disheartened, Cic. Fam. 6, 1, 4:

    tam graviter,

    id. Off. 1, 21, 73; cf. Sen. Ep. 8, 3.—Esp., to fail in speaking:

    magnus orator est... minimeque in lubrico versabitur, et si semel constiterit numquam cadet,

    Cic. Or. 28, 98:

    alte enim cadere non potest,

    id. ib. —So in the lang. of the jurists, causā or formulā, to lose one ' s cause or suit:

    causā cadere,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 19, 57; so id. de Or. 1, 36, 166 sq.; id. Fam. 7, 14, 1; Quint. 7, 3, 17; Luc. 2, 554; Suet. Calig. 39:

    formulā cadere,

    Sen. Ep. 48, 10; Quint. 3, 6, 69.—With in:

    ita quemquam cadere in judicio, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Mur. 28, 58.—Also absol.:

    cadere,

    Tac. H. 4, 6; and:

    criminibus repetundarum,

    id. ib. 1, 77:

    conjurationis crimine,

    id. A. 6, 14:

    ut cecidit Fortuna Phrygum,

    Ov. M. 13, 435:

    omniaque ingrato litore vota cadunt, i. e. irrita sunt,

    remain unfulfilled, unaccomplished, Prop. 1, 17, 4 (diff. from Tib. 2, 2, 17; v. above, D. 2.); cf.:

    at mea nocturno verba cadunt zephyro,

    Prop. 1, 16, 34:

    multa renascentur, quae jam cecidere, cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula,

    to fall into disuse, grow out of date, Hor. A. P. 70 —Hence of theatrical representations, to fall through, to fail, be condemned (opp. stare, to win applause;

    the fig. derived from combatants): securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176.— Impers.. periculum est, ne cadatur, Aug. Don. Persev. 1.—
    2.
    Esp. of the wind (opp. surgo), to abate, subside, die away, etc.:

    cadit Eurus et umida surgunt Nubila,

    Ov. M. 8, 2:

    ventus premente nebulā cecidit,

    Liv. 29, 27, 10:

    cadente jam Euro,

    id. 25, 27, 11:

    venti vis omnis cecidit,

    id. 26, 39, 8:

    ubi primum aquilones ceciderunt,

    id. 36, 43, 11; cf.:

    sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor,

    Verg. A. 1, 154:

    ventosi ceciderunt murmuris aurae,

    id. E. 9, 58; id. G. 1, 354 Serv. and Wagn.—
    G.
    Rhet. and gram. t. t. of words, syllables, clauses, etc., to be terminated, end, close:

    verba melius in syllabas longiores cadunt,

    Cic. Or. 57, 194; 67, 223: qua (littera [p. 260] sc. m) nullum Graece verbum cadit, Quint. 12, 10, 31:

    plerique censent cadere tantum numerose oportere terminarique sententiam,

    Cic. Or. 59, 199; so id. Brut. 8, 34:

    apto cadens oratio,

    Quint. 9, 4, 32:

    numerus opportune cadens,

    id. 9, 4, 27:

    ultima syllaba in gravem vel duas graves cadit semper,

    id. 12, 10, 33 Spald.: similiter cadentia = omoioptôta, the ending of words with the same cases or verbal forms, diff. from similiter desinentia = omoioteleuta, similar endings of any kind, Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; id. Or. 34, 135; Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28; Quint. 9, 4, 42; cf. id. 9, 4, 18; 9, 3, 78; 9, 3, 79; 1, 7, 23; Aquil. Rom. Figur. §§ 25 and 26.

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  • 5 desum

    dē-sum, fŭi, esse (ee in deest, deesse, deerit, etc., in the poets per synaeresin as one syll., Lucr. 1, 44; Cat. 64, 151; Verg. G. 2, 233; id. A. 7, 262; 10, 378; Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 24; Ov. M. 15, 354 et saep.; praes. subj., desiet, Cato R. R. 8; perf., defuerunt, trisyl., Ov. M. 6, 585; fut. inf., commonly defuturum esse, as Cic. Div. in Caecil. 1, 2, etc.;

    also defore,

    id. Fam. 13, 63; Caes. B. G. 5, 56; Sil. 9, 248; imperf. subj., deforent, Ambros. Hexaem. 3, 13), v. n., to be away, be absent; to fail, be wanting (for syn. cf.: absum, deficio, descisco, negligo; freq. in all periods).
    I.
    In gen.
    (α).
    Absol.:

    non ratio, verum argentum deerat,

    Ter. Ph. 2, 1, 69:

    frigore enim desunt ignes ventique calore Deficiunt,

    Lucr. 6, 360: cf. id. 3, 455; Cato R. R. 8:

    omnia deerant, quae, etc.,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 29 fin.:

    semper paullum ad summam felicitatem defuisse,

    id. ib. 6, 43, 5:

    ibi numquam causas seditionum et certaminis defore,

    Liv. 45, 18:

    quod non desit habentem, etc.,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 52 et saep.:

    non desunt qui, for sunt qui,

    Quint. 4, 5, 11; 8, 3, 85; Plin. 2, 109, 112, § 248.—
    (β).
    With dat. (so most freq.):

    metuo mihi in monendo ne defuerit oratio,

    Plaut. Bac. 1, 1, 3 and 4:

    cui nihil desit, quod, etc.,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17; cf. id. Lael. 14, 51:

    sive deest naturae quippiam, sive abundat atque affluit,

    id. Div. 1, 29, 61:

    quantum alteri sententiae deesset animi, tantum alteri superesse,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 31; so,

    opp. superesse,

    Cic. Fam. 13, 63; cf.

    opp. superare,

    Sall. C. 20, 11:

    neu desint epulis rosae,

    Hor. Od. 1, 36, 15; id. Ep. 1, 1, 58 et saep.:

    hoc unum ad pristinam fortunam Caesari defuit,

    Caes. B. G. 4, 26 fin.; cf. id. B. C. 3, 2, 2; 3, 96, 2. —
    (γ).
    With in:

    ut neque in Antonio deesset hic ornatus orationis, neque in Crasso redundaret,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 4 fin.; id. Rep. 2, 33:

    in C. Laenio commendando,

    id. Fam. 13, 63 al. —
    (δ).
    With inf. ( poet. and in postAug. prose):

    et mihi non desunt turpes pendere corollae,

    Prop. 1, 16, 7; Sil. 6, 10; Tac. H. 4, 1 al.—
    (ε).
    With quominus:

    duas sibi res, quominus in vulgus et in foro diceret, defuisse,

    Cic. Rep. 3, 30 fin. (ap. Non. 262, 23); Tac. A. 14, 39.—
    (ζ).
    With quin:

    nihil contumeliarum defuit, quin subiret,

    Suet. Ner. 45.—
    (η).
    With ut:

    non defuit, ut, etc.,

    Capitol. Gord. III. 31.—
    II.
    Pregn., to fail, be wanting in one's duty, as in rendering assistance, etc.; not to assist or serve, to desert one, to neglect a person or thing.
    (α).
    With dat.:

    tantum enitor, ut neque amicis neque etiam alienioribus opera, consilio, labore desim,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 17; cf. id. Mur. 4 fin.:

    ne tibi desis,

    that you be not wanting to yourself, neglect not your own advantage, id. Rosc. Am. 36, 104; id. Fam. 5, 12, 2; cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 56; 2, 1, 17; 1, 4, 134:

    senatu reique publicae,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 1, 3 sq.:

    communi saluti nulla in re,

    id. B. G. 5, 33, 2:

    Timotheo de fama dimicanti,

    Nep. Timoth. 4, 3:

    huic rei,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 93, 2:

    negotio,

    id. ib. 2, 41, 3:

    decori vestro,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 24:

    officio et dignitati meae,

    id. Att. 7, 17, 4; Liv. 3, 50:

    tempori,

    id. 21, 27; cf.:

    occasioni temporis,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 79 et saep.—
    (β).
    Without dat.:

    non deest reipublicae consilium... nos, nos, dico aperte, consules desumus,

    Cic. Cat. 1, 1 fin.; id. Rep. 3, 21:

    qui non deerat in causis,

    id. Brut. 34, 130:

    nec deerat Ptolemaeus,

    Tac. H. 1, 22 fin. —
    B.
    To fall short of, miss, fail to obtain:

    ne quis desit gratiae Dei,

    Vulg. Heb. 12, 15.

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  • 6 careō

        careō    (P. praes. gen. plur. carentum, V.), uī, itūrus, ēre, to be without, be free from, be destitute of: illam, T.: culpā, T.: dolore: vitiis, H.: communi sensu, H.: morte, to be immortal, H.: suis figurā, i. e. exempt from transformation into, O.— To do without, deprive oneself of, deny oneself, refrain, abstain from: cibo, Cs.: lubidinibus haud facile, S.: amicorum facultatibus, N.: satiatis iucundius est carere quam frui, abstinence. — Of places, to hold aloof from, not to go to, be absent from: foro: provinciā do moque: patriā, N.—Of inanimate subjects, to be without, be void of, be free from, want: tempora carent crimine: nec lacrimis caruere genae, V.: Quae caret ora cruore nostro? H.: aditu carentia saxa, inaccessible, O.: numero, to be countless, H.: Lux caritura fine, O. — To be deprived of, want, have lost (not of the necessaries of life): patriā, T.: ut Latio careat, fail to reach, V.: consuetudine amicorum: commodis omnibus: vate sacro, not to be celebrated by, H.: caret omni Maiorum censu, has dissipated, Iu.: tui carendum quod erat, T.: Virque mihi dempto fine carendus abest, O.—To feel the want of, miss: carere significat, egere eo quod habere velis: non caret is qui non desiderat: in carendo patientia.
    * * *
    carere, carui, caritus V
    be without/absent from/devoid of/free from; miss; abstain from, lack, lose

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  • 7 dēstituō

        dēstituō uī, ūtus, ere    [de + statuo], to set down, set forth, put away, bring forward, leave alone: alios in convivio (in mockery): ante tribunal regis destitutus, L.: ante pedes destitutum causam dicere, L.— To leave, abandon, forsake, fail: cum alveum aqua destituisset, L.: ut quemque destitueret vadum, lost his footing, L.—Fig., to forsake, abandon, desert, betray: ab Oppianico destitutus: funditores inermīs, Cs.: eundem in septemviratu: defensores, L.: alicuius consiliis destitutus: morando spem, L.: destituti ab omni spe, L.: si destituat spes, alia praesidia molitur, L.: deos Mercede pactā, i. e. defraud of their stipulated reward, H.
    * * *
    destituere, destitui, destitutus V TRANS
    fix/set (in position), set up, make fast; leave destitute/without; render void; desert/leave/abandon/forsake/leave in lurch; disappoint/let down; fail/give up

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  • 8 ab-sum

        ab-sum āfuī    (not abfuī), āfutūrus (āforem, āfore), abesse, in general, to be away from, be absent: dum abs te absum, T.: qui nullā lege abessem, i. e. since my exile was unlawful: Athenis, N.: hinc abesto, stand off, Ph.: omnia quae absunt, unseen things, Cs.: Unus abest, is missing, V.: nec Teucris addita Iuno Usquam aberit, will ever cease to follow them, V.: barba dum aberat, i. e. until the beard grew, O. —With distance in space or time: ab urbe abesse milia passuum ducenta: longe: procul, S.: cuius aetas a senatoriā gradu longe abesset, was far too young for: a quibus paucorum dierum iter, Cs.: profectus mensīs tris abest, three months ago, T.: nec longis inter se passibus absunt, V.: quod abest longissime, and that is far from the truth: tantum abest ab infamiā, ut, etc.: neque longius abesse quin proximā nocte... exercitum educat, i. e. nor was the time more remote, Cs.—In the phrase: tantum abest ut... ut, so far from... that, etc.: tantum abest ut gratiam quaesisse videar, ut simultates intellegam suscepisse, I am so far from being shown to have courted popularity, that, etc.: tantum abest ab eo, ut malum mors sit, ut verear, ne, etc. — Hence, to be away from, be free from: a culpā: ab eius modi crimine.—To be removed from, be disinclined to: ab istis studiis: tantum aberat a bello, ut, etc., he was so averse to war, that, etc.: ab hoc consilio afuisse, took no part in, Cs.: ceteri a periculis aberant, avoided, S.: paulum a fugā aberant, were almost ready to flee, S.—To be removed from, be different from, differ: qui longissime a te afuit, i. e. had the largest majority: abest virtute Messallae, is far inferior to, H. — To be unsuitable, be inappropriate: scimus musicen abesse ab principis personā, N.—To be wanting: quaeris id quod habes, quod abest non quaeris, T.: nusquam abero, V.: ratus pluribus curam, omnibus afuisse fortunam, that most had been negligent, all unsuccessful, Cu.: Donec virenti canities abest Morosa, H.: curtae nescio quid semper abest rei, H.—Hence with a negative or paulum (not parum), followed by quin, not much, little, nothing is wanting that, etc.: neque multum abesse ab eo, quin, etc., Cs.: paulumque afuit quin, Cs.: legatos haud procul afuit quin violarent, they came very near, L.—Abesse alicui or ab aliquo, to be wanting to, fail, not to help: longe alcui, O.: longe iis fraternum nomen populi R. afuturum, Cs.: quo plus intererat, eo plus aberat (tua virtus) a me, i. e. the more it would have helped me, the more it failed me: iussis mora abesto, O.: nec dextrae erranti deus afuit, V.: remo ut luctamen abesset, so that the rowing was without effort, V.

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  • 9 desero

    I
    deserere, deserui, desertus V TRANS
    leave/depart/quit/desert; forsake/abandon/give up; withdraw support, let down; cease to be concerned with; fail/fall short; (PASS w/ABL) be without/deprived
    II
    deserere, desevi, desatus V TRANS
    plant, sow

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  • 10 excido

    1.
    ex-cĭdo, cĭdi, 3, v. n. [cado], to fall out or down, to fall from (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. sense).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.: quod (animal) cum ex utero elapsum excidit, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128:

    sol excidisse mihi e mundo videtur,

    id. Att. 9, 10, 3:

    gladii de manibus exciderunt,

    id. Pis. 9 fin.; cf. id. Phil. 12, 3, 8; id. Cat. 1, 6 fin.;

    for which also: inter manus (urna),

    Prop. 4 (5), 4, 22; and:

    a digitis (ansa),

    Ov. H. 16, 252:

    Palinurus exciderat puppi,

    Verg. A. 6, 339; cf.

    arce,

    Ov. F. 5, 34:

    equis,

    Sen. Herc. Oet. 1164:

    num qui nummi exciderunt, here, tibi, quod sic terram Obtuere?

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 17; cf. id. Cist. 4, 2, 8; id. Merc. 3, 1, 44; id. Poen. 1, 2, 48:

    volvae excidunt,

    Plin. 36, 21, 39, § 151.— Poet.:

    ita vinclis Excidet aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit,

    will slip out of the fetters, Verg. G. 4, 410:

    in flumen (elephanti, sc. e rate),

    Liv. 21, 28 fin.:

    cum Herculis pertractanti arma sagitta excidisset in pedem,

    Plin. 25, 6, 30, § 66:

    ante pedes (lingua resecta),

    Ov. Ib. 536.—
    B.
    In partic., of a lot, to fall of come out (very rare):

    ut cujusque sors exciderat,

    Liv. 21, 42, 3;

    and hence, transf.: nominibus in urnam conjectis, citari quod primum sorte nomen excidit,

    id. 23, 3, 7.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to fall out involuntarily, fall from, slip out, escape:

    verbum ex ore alicujus,

    Cic. Sull. 26; cf.:

    vox excidit ore: Venisti tandem, etc.,

    Verg. A. 6, 686:

    tantumque nefas patrio excidit ore?

    id. ib. 2, 658; cf.:

    scelus ore tuo,

    Ov. M. 7, 172:

    quod verbum tibi non excidit, ut saepe fit, fortuito,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 2 fin.; cf. Quint. 6, 3, 23; 7, 2, 52; 9, 4, 41 al.:

    libellus me imprudente et invito excidit,

    escaped me without my knowledge or desire, Cic. de Or. 1, 21; cf. id. ib. 1, 2, 5:

    vox horrenda per auras excidit,

    Verg. A. 9, 113:

    et pariter vultusque deo plectrumque colorque Excidit,

    Ov. M. 2, 602; cf. id. ib. 4, 176:

    ut quodammodo victoria e manibus excideret,

    Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2:

    (versus) qui in breves excidunt,

    i. e. which close, terminate, Quint. 9, 4, 106.— Poet.: in vitium libertas excidit, qs. falls away, sinks, = delabitur, Hor. A. P. 282.—
    B.
    In partic.
    * 1.
    To dissent, differ from any one's opinion: ego ab Archilocho excido, Lucil. ap. Non. 301, 18.—
    2.
    To pass away, be lost, perish, disappear:

    neque enim verendum est, ne quid excidat aut ne quid in terram defluat,

    Cic. Lael. 16, 58:

    primo miser excidit aevo,

    Prop. 3, 7, 7 (4, 6, 7 M.):

    nec vera virtus, cum semel excidit, etc.,

    Hor. C. 3, 5, 30:

    at non ingenio quaesitum nomen ab aevo Excidet,

    Prop. 3, 2, 24 (4, 1, 64 M.):

    excidit omnis luctus,

    Ov. M. 8, 448:

    ne Tarentinae quidem arcis excidit memoria,

    Liv. 27, 3 fin.; cf. the foll.—Esp.
    b.
    To fail, faint, swoon, lose one's self:

    excidit illa metu, rupitque novissima verba,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 5, 39; cf.: ut scias quemadmodum nunquam excidam mihi, lose control of myself (through drink), Sen. de Ira, 3, 14, 1:

    quis me dolori reddit? quam bene excideram mihi!

    Sen. Hippol. 589 sq. —
    c.
    To slip out, escape from the memory:

    excidere de memoria,

    Liv. 29, 19 fin.:

    exciderat pacis mentio ex omnium animis,

    id. 34, 37; cf.

    animo,

    Verg. A. 1, 26; Ov. H. 20, 188;

    and pectore,

    id. Pont. 2, 4, 24:

    o miram memoriam, Pomponi, tuam! at mihi ista exciderant,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 46; so with dat.:

    quae cogitatio, cum mihi non omnino excidisset, etc.,

    id. Fam. 5, 13, 2; id. Att. 6, 1, 7; Quint. 4, 5, 4; 10, 1, 75; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 20; 4 (5), 7, 15 et saep.; cf. with a subjectclause:

    non excidit mihi, scripsisse me, etc.,

    Quint. 2, 3, 10.— Absol.:

    quid? non haec varietas mira est, excidere proxima, vetera inhaerere? hesternorum immemores acta pueritiae recordari,

    id. 11, 2, 6; 1, 12, 6; 4, 2, 91; 4, 5, 2; cf. with inf. clause:

    si calore dicendi vitare id excidisset,

    id. 11, 3, 130; and with ut:

    excidit, ut peterem, etc.,

    i. e. I forgot to beg, Ov. M. 14, 139.—Rarely transf. to the person:

    excidens,

    who forgets, forgetful, Quint. 11, 2, 19:

    palam moneri excidentis est,

    id. 11, 3, 132.—
    3.
    (Ex) aliquā re, of persons, to be deprived of, to lose, miss, forfeit (esp. freq. since the Aug. per.;

    in Cic. not at all): ex familia,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 104:

    uxore,

    to be disappointed of, Ter. And. 2, 5, 12:

    regno,

    Curt. 10, 5:

    quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis,

    failed in a great attempt, Ov. M. 2, 328; cf.:

    fine medicinae,

    Quint. 2, 17, 25:

    genere,

    id. 1, 5, 16: qui apud privatos judices plus petendo formula excidissent, i. e. who lost their suits (for the usual cadere formulā or [p. 677] causā;

    v. cado, II.),

    Suet. Claud. 14; Sen. Clem. 2, 3.
    2.
    ex-cīdo, īdi, īsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut out or off, to hew out, to cut or hew down (class.).
    I.
    Lit.:

    lapides e terra,

    Cic. Off. 2, 3 fin.:

    omnes arbores longe lateque,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 15, 1; cf.:

    excisa enim est arbor, non evulsa,

    Cic. Att. 15, 4, 2: exciditur ilex (with percellunt magnas quercus), Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. 194 ed. Vahl.):

    arborem e stirpe,

    Dig. 43, 27, 1:

    ericium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 67 fin.:

    radicem,

    Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82:

    columnas rupibus,

    Verg. A. 1, 428; cf.:

    rubos arvis,

    Quint. 9, 4, 5: linguam alicui, Crassus ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1 fin.:

    partum mulieri,

    Dig. 11, 8, 2:

    os,

    Cels. 8, 3:

    virilitatem,

    i. e. to castrate, geld, Quint. 5, 12, 17;

    for which also, se,

    Ov. F. 4, 361; cf. Dig. 48, 8, 4 fin.:

    vias per montes,

    Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 125:

    latus rupis in antrum,

    Verg. A. 6, 42; cf.:

    vasa anaglypta in asperitatem,

    i. e. wrought with raised figures, Plin. 33, 11, 49, § 139: exciderat eum (sc. obeliscum) rex, majusque opus in devehendo statuendove multo quam in excidendo, i. e. cut out in the quarry, Plin. 36, 8, 14, § 67; absol., id. ib. § 65.—
    B.
    Transf., in gen., to raze, demolish, lay waste, destroy:

    qui domos inimicorum suorum oppugnavit, excidit, incendit,

    Cic. Sest. 44:

    Numantiam,

    id. Off. 1. 22, 76; cf.

    Trojam,

    Verg. A. 2, 637:

    urbem,

    id. ib. 12, 762:

    oppida,

    Lact. 1, 18, 8:

    Germaniam,

    Vell. 2, 123 fin.:

    agrum,

    id. 2, 115:

    exercitum,

    i. e. to cut to pieces, annihilate, id. 2, 120, 3.—
    II.
    Trop., to extirpate, remove, banish:

    aliquid ex animo,

    Cic. Prov. Cons. 18, 43; cf.:

    iram animis, Sen. de Ira, 3, 1: aliquem numero civium,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 6.

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  • 11 jaceo

    jăcĕo, cŭi, cĭtum ( fut. part. jaci-turus, Stat. Th. 7, 777), 2, v. n. [ intr. of jacio; lit., to be thrown or cast; hence], to lie.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    in limine,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, § 118:

    stratum ad pedes alicujus,

    id. Quint. 31, 96; id. Q. Fr. 2, 5, 2:

    alicui ad pedes,

    id. Verr. 2, 5, 49, § 129:

    in lecto,

    id. Phil. 2, 18, 45; Juv. 6, 269:

    in ignota harena,

    Verg. A. 5, 871:

    Tyrio sublimis in ostro,

    Ov. H. 12, 179:

    in viridi gramine,

    id. Am. 1, 14, 22:

    in teneris dominae lacertis,

    id. ib. 1, 13, 5:

    in solo,

    id. M. 2, 420:

    in viduo toro,

    id. H. 16, 316:

    in gremio,

    id. ib. 9, 136;

    11, 4: in servi complexibus,

    Juv. 6, 279;

    for which: saxum campo quod forte jacebat,

    Verg. A. 12, 897:

    deserto lecto,

    Ov. H. 1, 7:

    saxo,

    id. M. 6, 100:

    gremio mariti,

    Juv. 2, 120:

    in aversa ora,

    Ov. H. 12, 63:

    super corpus alicujus,

    id. F. 2, 836:

    somno,

    Verg. E. 6, 14:

    spissa harena,

    id. A. 6, 336:

    humo,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 238:

    nudus humi jacet,

    Lucr. 5, 224; Cic. Cat. 1, 10, 26; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 12:

    humi ante lectum jacens,

    Suet. Oth. 7:

    mecum inter salices lenta sub vite jacere,

    Verg. E. 10, 40:

    sub alta platano,

    Hor. C. 2, 11, 14:

    strata jacent sub arbore poma,

    Verg. E. 7, 54.— Absol.:

    Tityos jacet alitis esca,

    Verg. Cul. 237:

    vittae jacentes,

    Tib. 2, 5, 53:

    pisces jacentes,

    i. e. flatfish, Col. 8, 17, 9.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Of sick persons, to lie ill, to be sick:

    cura ut valeas, ne ego te jacente bona tua comedim,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 20:

    cum tristj morbo defessa jaceres,

    Tib. 1, 5, 9:

    hic facit ut jaceas,

    Ov. H. 20, 173:

    graviter,

    Plin. Ep. 5. 9:

    sine spe,

    Sen. Ep. 101, 3.—
    2.
    To lie dead, to have fallen:

    Aeacidae telo jacet Hector,

    Verg. A. 1, 99; 10, 737:

    corpora per campos ferro quae fusa jacebant,

    id. ib. 11, 102:

    cum primi occidissent, proximi jacentibus insisterent,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 27, 3; 7, 25, 3:

    neminem jacentem veste spoliavit,

    Nep. Thras. 2, 6; cf.:

    spolia jacentis hostium exercitus,

    Liv. 44, 45:

    ne inultos imperatores suos jacere sinerent,

    id. 25, 37:

    qui bene pro patria cum patriaque jacent,

    Ov. H. 3, 106:

    Arge, jaces!

    id. M. 1, 720: morte jacent merita, id. F. 3, 707:

    fratri jacet,

    killed by his brother, Sil. 15, 650:

    rupto jacuit corpore (rana),

    Phaedr. 1, 24, 10:

    jacuit Catilina cadavere toto,

    Juv. 10, 288.—
    3.
    To be or lie long anywhere, to linger, tarry, stop at a place:

    pernam, glandium, sumen facito in aqua jaceant,

    Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 33:

    Brundusii,

    to stay long at, Cic. Att. 11, 6, 2.—
    4.
    Geographically, to lie, be situate, = esse, situm esse (not in Cic. or Cæs.): jacet Vada inter Appenninum et Alpis, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2; Liv. 5, 48, 2; 6, 30, 5; 22, 3, 3:

    inter Taurum montem jacet et Hellespontem,

    Nep. Eum. 3, 2 saep.:

    quae gens jacet supra Ciliciam,

    id. Dat. 4:

    ad vesperam jacentis terrae,

    Plin. 18, 25, 57, § 216:

    summo in vertice montis Planities ignota jacet,

    Verg. A. 11, 527:

    quod urbes in planis jaceant,

    Just. 22, 5, 5:

    alio patriam quaerunt sub sole jacentem,

    Verg. G. 2, 512:

    jacet extra sidera tellus,

    id. A. 6, 795; cf.:

    pallente sub umbra Cimmerias jacuisse domos,

    Sil. 12, 132:

    inter eos solemque jacent immania ponti aequora,

    Lucr. 4, 412; cf.:

    Cyclades et Sporades per quingenta milia in longitudinem... jacent,

    extend, Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 71.—
    5.
    To be low, flat, level:

    jacentia et plana urbis loca,

    Tac. H. 1, 86:

    despiciens terras jacentīs,

    Verg. A. 1, 224:

    praetervehor Thapsum jacentem,

    id. ib. 3, 689; Val. Fl. 4, 712:

    quaeque jacent valles,

    Ov. F. 2, 392; Just. 22, 5, 5:

    jacentes campos,

    Luc. 4, 52:

    summo despexit ab aethere terras Infelix Phaëthon penitus penitusque jacentes,

    Ov. M. 2, 178.—
    6.
    Esp., of the sea, to be level, quiet, lie still:

    mediusque jacet sine murmure pontus,

    Luc. 1, 260; 5, 434:

    servatum bello jacuit mare,

    id. 3, 523:

    planum mare,

    Juv. 12, 62:

    stagna jacentia,

    Sil. 5, 583.—
    7.
    To lie in ruins, be broken down: cui nec arae patriae domi stant, fractae et disjectae jacent, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. Rel. v. 115 Vahl.):

    jacent, Ilion ingens,

    Ov. M. 13, 505:

    ausa et jacentem visere regiam vultu sereno,

    Hor. C. 1, 37, 25:

    Troja jacet certe,

    Ov. H. 1, 3:

    vetus Thebe jacet,

    Juv. 15, 6.—
    8.
    To hang loose:

    vagi crines per colla jacebant,

    Ov. M. 2, 673; id. A. A. 3, 236:

    jacentia lora,

    lying loose on the horse's neck, id. M. 2, 201; cf.

    , of clothing, etc.: juvenes timidaeque puellae Praeverrunt latas veste jacente vias,

    id. Am. 3, 13, 24:

    demissa jacent tibi pallia terrae,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 25; id. A. A. 153.—
    9.
    Of the eyes, face, etc., to be cast down, fixed on the ground:

    vultusque attolle jacentes,

    Ov. M. 4, 144:

    jacentes Vix oculos tollens,

    id. ib. 11, 618.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    To be indolent or inactive, not to come forward:

    in pace jacere, quam in bello vigere maluit. Quamquam ille quidem numquam jacuit,

    Cic. Phil. 10, 7, 14:

    C. Marius cum a spe consulatus longe abesset et jam septimum annum post praeturam jaceret,

    id. Off. 3, 20, 79:

    ars tua, Tiphy, jacet, si non sit in aequore fluctus,

    Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 77:

    at mea numina tandem fessa jacent,

    Verg. A. 7, 298.—
    B.
    To be cast down, dejected:

    Gnaeus noster ut totus jacet,

    Cic. Att. 7, 21, 1:

    ne jaceam? quis unquam minus,

    id. ib. 12, 40, 2:

    jacet in maerore meus frater,

    id. ib. 10, 4; id. Phil. 12, 2:

    militum jacere animos,

    Liv. 10, 35.—
    C.
    To lie prostrate:

    victa jacet pietas,

    Ov. M. 1, 149:

    nobilitas sub amore jacet,

    id. H. 4, 161:

    Africani, Marii, Sullae, Pompeii infra Pallantis laudes jacebant,

    Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 2:

    justitia vacillat, vel jacet potius,

    Cic. Off. 3, 33, 118:

    humana cum vita jaceret, oppressa gravi sub religione,

    Lucr. 1, 63.—
    D.
    To be refuted, overcome, disproved, to fail:

    jacent suis testibus, qui Clodium negant Romam fuisse rediturum, etc.,

    Cic. Mil. 18, 47:

    jacet omnis ratio Peripateticorum,

    id. Fin. 5, 28, 86:

    jacet igitur tota conclusio,

    id. Div. 2, 51, 106.—
    E.
    To lie dormant, be disused or neglected, to be of no avail:

    cum leges nihil valebant, cum judicia jacebant,

    Cic. Par. 4, 1:

    tota Capua et omnis hic delectus jacet,

    id. Att. 7, 22: dici non potest, quomodo hic omnia jaceant, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6:

    justitia jacet,

    Cic. Off. 3, 33:

    maximas virtutes jacere omnes necesse est voluptate dominante,

    id. Fin. 2, 35, 117; Quint. 9, 2, 4.—
    F.
    To be despised, in no esteem:

    cum jacerent pretia praediorum,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 12, 33:

    ut neque jacere regem pateremur,

    id. Fam. 1, 5, 3:

    sed nunc omnia ista jacere puto, propter nummorum caritatem,

    are cheap, id. Att. 9, 9, 4: dat census honores, Census amicitias:

    pauper ubique jacet,

    Ov. F. 1, 218; id. R. Am 139.—
    G.
    To lie idle, neglected, or unemployed:

    cur tamdiu jacet hoc nomen in adversariis,

    Cic. Rosc. Com. 3:

    quomodo tibi tanta pecunia extraordinaria jacet?

    id. ib. 1:

    quae (pecuniae) vereor, ne otiosae jaceant,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 62, 1:

    nonne justius erit proximo cuique bonorum possessionem dari, ne bona jaceant,

    that they be not without an owner, Dig. 37, 3, 1.—
    H.
    To lie open, be obvious, to be known, be at hand:

    neque ex alio genere (verborum) ad usum cottidianum, alio ad scenam pompamque sumuntur, sed ea nos cum jacentia sustulimus e medio,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 45, 177.—
    I.
    Of speech or language, to be languid, lifeless, dull:

    quibus detractis, jacet (oratio),

    Quint. 9, 2, 4:

    jacens oratio,

    Gell. 1, 11, 15; cf. Quint. 8, 5, 32.

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  • 12 ruo

    rŭo, ŭi, ŭtum (ruiturus, a, um, Ov. M. 4, 459; Luc. 7, 404; Mart. 1, 88, 4; Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 8; gen. plur. part. ruentum, Verg. A. 11, 886), 3, v. n. and a., to fall with violence, rush down; to fall down, tumble down, go to ruin (cf.: labor, procumbo, cado).
    I.
    Neutr. (very freq. and class.).
    A.
    Lit. Rarely of persons:

    caedebant pariter pariterque ruebant Victores victique,

    Verg. A. 10, 756; so Val. Fl. 7, 642.—Of things:

    ruere illa non possunt, ut haec non eodem labefacta motu concidant,

    Cic. Imp. Pomp. 7, 19:

    spectacula runnt,

    fell down, tumbled down, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 47; cf.:

    parietes ruunt,

    id. Most. 1, 2, 36:

    lateres veteres,

    id. Truc. 2, 2, 50; so,

    aedes,

    id. Am. 5, 1, 43; id. Most. 1, 2, 69:

    omnia tecta (supra aliquem),

    Lucr. 4, 403; Liv. 4, 21, 5; Quint. 8, 3, 68 al.:

    altae turres,

    Lucr. 5, 307:

    moles et machina mundi,

    id. 5, 96:

    murus,

    Liv. 21, 11:

    templa deum,

    Hor. S. 2, 2, 104;

    aulaea,

    id. ib. 2, 8, 71:

    acervus,

    id. Ep. 2, 1, 47:

    murus latius quam caederetur,

    Liv. 21, 11:

    tecta in agris,

    id. 4, 21:

    silices a montibus altis,

    Lucr. 5, 314:

    alto a culmine Troja,

    Verg. A. 2, 290.— Poet.:

    caeli templa,

    Lucr. 1, 1105: ruit arduus aether, it rains, or the rain descends in torrents, Verg. G. 1, 324; cf. id. A. 8, 525:

    caelum imbribus immodicis,

    Mart. 3, 100, 3; cf.:

    caelum in se,

    Liv. 40, 58:

    ruit imbriferum ver,

    i.e. is ending, hastening to its close, Verg. G. 1, 313; cf.:

    turbidus imber aquā,

    id. A. 5, 695:

    tempestas,

    Tac. A. 1, 30.
    1.
    Prov.: caelum ruit, the sky is falling; of any thing very improbable: Cl. Quid tum, quaeso, si hoc pater resciverit? Sy. Quid si nunc caelum ruat? Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 41. —
    2.
    Transf., of rapid, hasty movements, to hasten, hurry, run, rush (cf.:

    volo, curro): id ne ferae quidem faciunt, ut ita ruant atque turbentur,

    Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 34; cf. id. Att. 7, 7, 7:

    (Pompeium) ruere nuntiant et jam jamque adesse,

    id. ib. 7, 20, 1:

    huc omnis turba ruebat,

    Verg. A. 6, 305:

    Aeneadae in ferrum ruebant,

    id. ib. 8, 648:

    per proelia,

    id. ib. 12, 526:

    quidam inermes ultro ruere ac se morti offerre,

    Tac. Agr. 37:

    contis gladiisque ruerent,

    id. A. 6, 35:

    in aquam caeci ruebant,

    Liv. 1, 27 fin.:

    in castra fugientes,

    id. 24, 16, 2: in vulnera ac tela, id. 26, 44:

    promiscue in concubitus,

    id. 3, 47:

    eques pedesque certatim portis ruere,

    id. 27, 41:

    ad urbem infesto agmine,

    id. 3, 3:

    ad portas,

    Tac. A. 1, 66:

    ad convivium,

    id. H. 2, 68 fin.:

    per vias,

    id. ib. 5, 22:

    destinatā morte in proelium,

    Flor. 2, 18, 12:

    ruebant laxatis habenis aurigae,

    Curt. 4, 15, 3:

    de montibus amnes,

    Verg. A. 4, 164:

    flumina per campos,

    Ov. M. 1, 285:

    in Galliam Rhenus,

    Tac. H. 5, 19.— Poet., of time:

    vertitur interea caelum et ruit Oceano Nox,

    i.e. hastens up, sets in, Verg. A. 2, 250:

    revoluta ruebat dies,

    was advancing, hastening on, id. ib. 10, 256; cf. of the setting of the sun, Val. Fl. 1, 274; App. M. 3, p. 136, 19.— Of sound, to break forth:

    antrum, unde ruunt totidem voces, responsa Sibyllae,

    Verg. A. 6, 44.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    (Acc. to A. 1.) To fall, fail, sink (very rare):

    ratio ruat omnis,

    Lucr. 4, 507:

    quae cum accidunt nemo est quin intellegat, ruere illam rem publicam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 6, § 12:

    Vitellium ne prosperis quidem parem, adeo ruentibus debilitatum,

    by his falling fortunes, Tac. H. 3, 64:

    tam florentes Atheniensium opes ruisse,

    Just. 5, 1, 9.—
    2.
    (Acc. to A. 2.) To rush, dash, hurry, hasten, run, etc. (freq. and class.):

    tamquam ad interitum ruerem voluntarium,

    Cic. Marcell. 5, 14:

    emptorem pati ruere et per errorem in maximam fraudem incurrere,

    to act hastily, commit an oversight, id. Off. 3, 13, 55; cf. Liv. 3, 11:

    cum cotidie rueret,

    Cic. Sest. 64, 133; id. Att. 2, 14, 1; Quint. 2, 20, 2:

    compescere ruentes,

    Tac. H. 1, 56; 2, 63 fin.; cf. id. ib. 2, 34:

    ad seditiones et discordias et bella civilia,

    id. ib. 1, 46:

    crudelitatis odio in crudelitatem ruitis,

    Liv. 3, 53:

    in servitium,

    Tac. A. 1, 7:

    in exitium,

    id. H. 1, 84:

    in sua fata,

    Ov. M. 6, 51:

    omnia fatis In pejus,

    Verg. G. 1, 200:

    quo scelesti ruitis?

    Hor. Epod. 7, 1:

    quo ruis,

    Verg. A. 10, 811; Ov. M. 9, 428:

    multos video, quā vel impudentiā vel fames duxit, ruentes,

    Quint. 2, 20, 2.— Poet., with inf.:

    quo ruis imprudens, vage, dicere fata?

    Prop. 4 (5), 1, 71:

    scire ruunt,

    Luc. 7, 751; Stat. Th. 7, 177; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 387.— Impers. pass.:

    ut ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur,

    Liv. 8, 24.—
    II.
    Act., to cast down with violence, to dash down, tumble down, hurl to the ground, prostrate (except the jurid. phrase ruta caesa, perh. only poet. and in post-Aug. prose, for in the passage, Cic. Att. 2, 15, 2, seu ruet seu eriget rem publicam, ruet might be neutr.)
    A.
    Lit.:

    imbres fluctusque... frangere malum, Ruere antennas, etc.,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 18:

    naves (vis venti),

    Lucr. 1, 272:

    res impetibus crebris (venti),

    id. 1, 293:

    ceteros ruerem, agerem, raperem, funderem et prosternerem,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 21:

    immanem molem volvuntque ruuntque,

    Verg. A. 9, 516:

    cumulos ruit pinguis harenae,

    breaks down, levels, id. G. 1, 105: sese superne in praedam, to cast one ' s self upon, App. Flor. 1, p. 341, 6.—
    B.
    Poet., transf., to cast up from the bottom, to turn up, throw up, rake up: cum mare permotum ventis, ruit intus harenam, casts up (syn. eruit), Lucr. 6, 726; cf.:

    totum (mare) a sedibus imis (venti),

    Verg. A. 1, 85:

    spumas salis aere,

    id. ib. 1, 35:

    cinerem et confusa Ossa focis,

    id. ib. 11, 211:

    atram nubem ad caelum (ignis),

    id. G. 2, 308:

    unde Divitias aerisque ruam, dic, augur, acervos,

    Hor. S. 2, 5, 22.—Hence, rŭtus, a, um, P. a., found only in the phrase rūta et caesa or rūta caesa (acc. to Varro, the u was pronounced long, although it is short in the compounds erutus, obrutus, etc.:

    in venditionis lege fundi ruta caesa ita dicimus, ut U producamus,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 104).—In jurid. lang., every thing dug up (ruta) and cut down (caesa) on an estate without being wrought, and which is reserved by the owner at a sale; the timber and minerals: si ruta et caesa excipiantur in venditione, ea placuit esse ruta, quae eruta sunt, ut harena, creta et similia;

    caesa ea esse, ut arbores caesas, et carbones et his similia, etc.,

    Dig. 19, 1, 17:

    in rutis caesis ea sunt, quae terrā non tenentur, quaeque opere structili tectoriove non continentur,

    ib. 50, 16, 241:

    ruta caesa dicuntur, quae venditor possessionis sui usus gratiā concidit ruendoque contraxit,

    Fest. p. 262 Müll.:

    ut venditores, cum aedes fundumve vendiderint rutis caesis receptis, concedant tamen aliquid emptori, quod ornandi causā apte et loco positum esse videatur,

    Cic. Top. 26, 100: dicet te ne in rutis quidem et caesis solium tibl fraternum recepisse, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 55, 226.

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  • without\ fail — adv. phr. Without failing to do it or failing in the doing of it; certainly, surely. Be here at 8 o clock sharp, without fail. Ben promised to return the bike at a certain time without fail. •• this is one hundred per cent sure or necessary …   Словарь американских идиом

  • Without Fail — infobox Book | name = Without Fail title orig = translator = image caption = 2002 Hardcover edition author = Lee Child cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Jack Reacher genre = Thriller novel publisher = Putnam… …   Wikipedia

  • without fail — 1) used for emphasizing that something always happens in the same way or at the same time He calls me every Sunday night without fail. 2) used for emphasizing that someone must do something I want to see you here at 8 o clock without fail! …   English dictionary

  • without fail — adverb certainly; by all means; as a matter of importance You will report to the police every week without fail …   Wiktionary

  • without fail — WITHOUT EXCEPTION, unfailingly, regularly, invariably, predictably, conscientiously, religiously, whatever happened. → fail …   Useful english dictionary

  • without fail — whatever happens. → fail …   English new terms dictionary

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