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circumlitum Verb: perfect passive participle masculine genitive plural, Verb: perfect passive participle neuter genitive plural, Verb: perfect passive participle neuter nominative singular, Verb: perfect passive participle neuter vocative singular, Verb: perfect passive participle neuter accusative singular, Verb: perfect passive participle masculine accusative singular, Verb: supine of circumlino

See circumlitum in Morpho

circum-lĭno, lĭtum, 3 (perf. late Lat. circumlinisti, Vulg. Ezech. 23, 40), v. a. (access. form circumlĭnĭo, īre; cf. lino; so, circumliniunt, Quint. 12, 9, 8 Spald. N. cr.: circumliniri, id. 1, 11, 6: circumliniendus, Col. 6, 16, 3; 6, 17, 9).
  • I Aliquid alicui, to smear, stick, or spread all over, to besmear: vulneribus aliquid circumlinitur, Plin. 22, 23, 49, § 103: Galbanum ramis ellebori circumlitum, id. 24, 5, 13, § 22: circumlita taedis sulfura, Ov. M. 3, 373.—Far more freq.,
  • II Aliquid aliquā re, to besmear something all over with something, to anoint, bedaub (class.; most freq. in part. perf. pass.): oculum pice liquidā, Col. 6, 17 fin.: labellum luto, id. 12, 44, 1. —Absol.: oculum, Plin. Ep. 6, 2, 2: alvos fimo bubulo, Plin. 21, 14, 47, § 80; 28, 11, 47, § 167.—In part.: corpora fuco, * Lucr. 2, 744: circumliti mortui cerā, * Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108: fictile argillā, Plin. 33, 9, 46, § 131 al.: pictura, in quā nihil circumlitum est, is painted around, Quint. 8, 5, 26.—
    • B -Trop.: extrinsecus adductis ea rebus circumliniunt, they elevate them, as it were, by strong coloring, embellish, Quint. 12, 9, 8.—And (the figure derived from smearing musical instruments with wax, in order to produce a deep tone): simplicem vocis naturam pleniore quodam sono circumlinire, quod Graeci καταπεπλασμένον dicunt, Quint. 1, 11, 7; cf. id. 11, 3, 20: nisi (mendacium) ornatu aliunde quaesito circumlitum fuerit ac politum, Lact. 3, 1, 3.—
    • C Poet., in gen., to cover, clothe: circumlita saxa musco, * Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 7: (Midas) auro, Ov. M. 11, 136.

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