verb
rĕ-pulso
Meaning
- to drive back
rĕ-pulso, āre, 1,
I. v. freq. [id.], to drive back or beat back again, to repel again and again.
I. Lit.:
civitas eloquiis caelestibus magis quam corporis voluptatibus hostiles impetus repulsare consueta, Ambros. in Psa. 118, Serm. 22, § 37 fin.—II. Transf.:
colles verba repulsantes, re-echoing, Lucr. 4, 579.— III. Trop.:
vera repulsans pectus dicta, Lucr. 4, 914.