vindicate
vindicate
v. trans.
Justify, defend (an action): P. ἀπολογεῖσθαι περί (gen.); see defend.
Vindicate oneself: Ar. and P. ἀ̆πολογεῖσθαι.
Vindicate (a person’s) freedom: P. ἐξαιρεῖσθαί (τινα) εἰς ἐλευθερίαν.
Guard: P. and V. φῠλάσσειν, σώζειν ; see guard, defend.
v. trans.
Justify, defend (an action): P. ἀπολογεῖσθαι περί (gen.); see defend.
Vindicate oneself: Ar. and P. ἀ̆πολογεῖσθαι.
Vindicate (a person’s) freedom: P. ἐξαιρεῖσθαί (τινα) εἰς ἐλευθερίαν.
Guard: P. and V. φῠλάσσειν, σώζειν ; see guard, defend.
VINDICATE
rem sibi or ad se vindicare (by law or not): tenere: obtinere (to make good one’s right to a disputed possession): retinere (to withhold anything not to give it up). In the poets and later prose writers asserere aliquid alicui (sibi) or asserere only (se caelo asserere Ov. So “assert the native skies ” Dryd.; i.e. claim to be heaven-born: nec laudes assere nostras Ov. nec sapientis nomen sibi asseruit Quint.). To vindicate a right successfully jus tenere obtinere retinere: to vindicate a right (= to endeavor to make it good) jus persequi: to vindicate one’s liberty (i.e. to escape from an actual servitude) se in libertatem asserere; se asserere (Ov.).
rem sibi or ad se vindicare (by law or not): tenere: obtinere (to make good one’s right to a disputed possession): retinere (to withhold anything not to give it up). In the poets and later prose writers asserere aliquid alicui (sibi) or asserere only (se caelo asserere Ov. So “assert the native skies ” Dryd.; i.e. claim to be heaven-born: nec laudes assere nostras Ov. nec sapientis nomen sibi asseruit Quint.). To vindicate a right successfully jus tenere obtinere retinere: to vindicate a right (= to endeavor to make it good) jus persequi: to vindicate one’s liberty (i.e. to escape from an actual servitude) se in libertatem asserere; se asserere (Ov.).
vindicate:
I. To maintain as a right, to hold successfully against:
1. tĕneo, 2, and compds.: to v. one's rights, jus suum tenere, Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48: cf. jus retinere, obtinere. v.TO MAINTAIN (II.).
2. jus persĕquor: id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21: cf. armis jus suum exsequi, Caes. B. G. 1, 4.
3. vindĭco, 1: so great was the universal feeling throughout the whole of Gaul that liberty should be v.'d, tanta universae Galliae consensio fuit libertatis vindicandae, id. 7, 76: cf. se in libertatem vindicare, Cic., pass.: aliquem in libertatem asserere (to v. or assert the liberty of an actual slave), Suet. Vitell. 10, ad med.
II. To support by argument:
1. obtĭneo: v.TO MAINTAIN (VII.).
2. prŏbo, etc.: to v. my conduct to you, ut vobis rationem mei facti probem, Cic. Mur. 2, 3: v.TO PROVE , SUBSTANTIATE .
III. To justify: purgo: v.TO JUSTIFY . Phr.: culpa aliquem liberare, etc. (v. TO EXCULPATE ): v. also TO CLEAR (II., phr.), INNOCENCE (phr.). Miscell.: to v. justice, pro aequitate propugnare, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 62: to v. one's reputation, pro fama alicujus propugnare, id. Rab. Perd. 10, 30: to v. one's own innocence, expedire se crimine, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 29: to do so by accusing another, alieno crimine protegere innocentiam suam, Liv. (Quich.).
I. To maintain as a right, to hold successfully against:
1. tĕneo, 2, and compds.: to v. one's rights, jus suum tenere, Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 48: cf. jus retinere, obtinere. v.
2. jus persĕquor: id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21: cf. armis jus suum exsequi, Caes. B. G. 1, 4.
3. vindĭco, 1: so great was the universal feeling throughout the whole of Gaul that liberty should be v.'d, tanta universae Galliae consensio fuit libertatis vindicandae, id. 7, 76: cf. se in libertatem vindicare, Cic., pass.: aliquem in libertatem asserere (to v. or assert the liberty of an actual slave), Suet. Vitell. 10, ad med.
II. To support by argument:
1. obtĭneo: v.
2. prŏbo, etc.: to v. my conduct to you, ut vobis rationem mei facti probem, Cic. Mur. 2, 3: v.
III. To justify: purgo: v.