verb
prae-grăvo
Meaning
- to press heavily upon
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
nimis premōpraegravō -āre — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 1
prae-grăvo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I. to press heavily upon, to oppress with weight, to encumber (perh. not before the Aug. period).
I. Lit.:
exonerare praegravante turbā regnum cupiens, Liv. 5, 34: praegravata telis scuta, burdened, heavy, id. 7, 23: caper praegravantibus auribus, drooping, Col. 7, 6.—B. Transf., to exceed in weight, preponderate:
ne praegravet fructus parte aliquā, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 184.—II. Trop., to weigh down, depress: qui praegravat artes, Infra se positas, qs. presses them down by his own superiority, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 13.—
B. To preponderate:
cito apparebit, pars civitatis deterior quanto praegravet, Sen. Clem. 1, 24, 1; Suet. Caes. 76.