sputare Save DMLBS sputare [CL] 1 to spit, to eject saliva (in quot. w. in & acc.). Dionysio indignanter ~ante in Aristippum, hic pacientissime pertulit W. Burley Vit. Phil. 144. 2 (of saliva) to form or be ejected. sputus fit viscosior et forte ~at spissus M. Scot Phys. 15.