verb transitive

dē-dŏlo

2nd PP dē-dŏlāre · 3rd PP dē-dŏlāvi · 4th PP dē-dŏlātum · conj. 1st

to hew away, to hew smooth, to hew; to cudgel soundly ••

v. a., to hew away, to hew smooth, to hew: partes putres pedamentorum, Col. 4, 26, 1: ridicas, id. 11, 2, 12: arborem, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188: vasculum crystallo dedolatum, smoothed, inlaid, App. M. 6, p. 178: ossa fracta fabrili manu, Mart. 11, 84.—Jocosely: senem Exossabo dein dedolabo assulatim viscera, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 106.—Hence, in familiar lang., to cudgel soundly: fustium quoque crebris ictibus dedolabar, App. M. 7, p. 195; and in an obscene sense, id. ib. 9, p. 220, 30.

Perseus ID: n12632 Key: dedolo