repudio

rĕpŭdĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [repudium], t. t.

A.

Of persons married or betrothed, to cast off, put away, divorce, repudiate (cf. reicio):

sponsas admodum adulescens duas habuit... priorem... virginem adhuc repudiavit,

Suet. Claud. 26:

uxorem,

id. Caes. 79; so id. Tib. 35 fin.:

Liviam repudiatam relegavit,

id. Calig. 25:

ob hoc repudiatus,

id. Gram. 3; Quint. 4, 2, 98; 8, 5, 31:

si repudiatur miles, mulier mecum perit,

Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 8; cf.:

repudiatus repetor,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 14:

sponsum,

Suet. Caes. 21; id. Gram. 3:

(mulier marito) amatorium dedit, repudiavit,

Quint. 7, 8, 2:

repudiari etiam futurum matrimonium potest,

Dig. 50, 16, 191.—

B.

To reject, refuse to accept an inheritance:

si heres bona repudiaverit,

Dig. 37, 14, 21 fin.:

fideicommissum,

ib. 31, 1, 35:

hereditatem,

ib. 31, 1, 77, § 31:

legatum a se,

ib. 33, 5, 10:

voluntatem defuncti,

ib. 32, 1, 80.—

II.

Transf., in gen., to reject, refuse; to scorn, disdain, repudiate (very freq. and good prose;

syn.: reprobo, aspernor, respuo): cujus vota et preces a vestris mentibus repudiare debetis,

Cic. Clu. 70, 201:

consilium senatūs a re publicā,

to remove, withdraw from the State, id. de Or. 3, 1, 3:

repudia istos comites,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 30:

duces,

Caes. B. C. 2, 32:

nobilitatem supplicem,

Cic. Planc. 20, 50:

eloquentia haec forensis spreta a philosophis et repudiata,

id. Or. 3, 13; cf.:

repudiata rejectaque legatio,

id. Phil. 9, 6, 15; Quint. 3, 6, 33:

genus totum liberi populi,

Cic. Rep. 1, 32, 49:

condicionem,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 54; Cic. Quint. 14, 46:

beneficium,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 11; cf.:

gratiam populi Romani,

Caes. B. G. 1, 40:

consilium,

Ter. And. 4, 3, 18:

legem,

Cic. Lael. 25, 96:

patrocinium voluptatis (corresp. to vituperare),

id. Fin. 2, 21, 67:

provinciam,

id. Phil. 3, 10, 26:

opimum dictionis genus funditus,

id. Or. 8, 25:

ista securitas multis locis repudianda,

id. Lael. 13, 47:

iracundia omnibus in rebus repudianda,

id. Off. 1, 25, 89:

virtus, quam sequitur caritas, minime repudianda est,

id. Lael. 17, 61.—Hence, part.: rĕpŭdĭātus, a, um; as subst.: rĕpŭ-dĭāta, ae, f., a divorced wife:

sin autem vidua, vel repudiata,

Vulg. Lev. 22, 13; id. Num. 30, 10; cf. id. Ezech. 44, 22.