press
press
v. trans.
Ar. and P. θλί̄βειν, πιέζειν, P. συμπιέζειν.
Embrace, cling to: P. and V. ἔχεσθαι (gen.), ἀντέχεσθαι (gen.); see cling.
Foot pressed against foot: V. ποὺς ἐπαλλαχθεὶς ποδί (Eur. Heracl. 836).
Touch: P. and V. ἅπτεσθαι (gen.), V. θιγγά̆νειν (gen.) (also Xen. but rare P.); see touch.
Drive: P. and V. ἐλαύνειν, ὠθεῖν.
Persuade, urge: P. and V. πείθειν, ἀ̆νᾰπείθειν, V. ἐκπείθειν ; see persuade.
Press one’s views: P. ἰσχυρίζεσθαι, διισχυρίζεσθαι.
Some three people accused you before this man but did not press the charge: P. τρεῖς σέ τινες γραψάμενοι πρότεροι τοῦδε οὐκ ἐπεξῆλθον (Dem. 501).
Oppress: P. and V. πιέζειν.
Be oppressed: also P. and V. βᾰρύ̄νεσθαι.
Press hard: P. and V. βιάζεσθαι.
Be hard pressed: P. and V. πιέζεσθαι, βιάζεσθαι, πονεῖν, τᾰλαιπωρεῖν, κάμνειν, νοσεῖν (rare P.), Ar. and P. τᾰλαιπωρεῖσθαι, P. πονεῖσθαι.
His creditors were pressing him: P. οἱ χρῆσται κατήπειγον αὐτόν (Dem. 894).
Be pressed for, lack: P. and V. ἀ̆πορεῖν (gen.); see lack.
Press into one’s service: P. and V. προστί̆θεσθαί (τινα), προσποιεῖσθαί (τινα), προσλαμβά̆νειν (τινά).
V. intrans. See crowd.
Press on, v. trans. and intrans.: see hurry.
Press upon (an enemy): Ar. and P. ἐγκεῖσθαι (dat. or absol.), P. and V. προσκεῖσθαι (dat.) ἐπῐκεῖσθαι (absol.).
Pursue: P. and V. διώκειν ; see pursue.
Be urgent with: P. and V. προσκεῖσθαι (dat., V. acc. Eur. I.A. 814).
When the Sphinx pressed heavily upon the city with her ravaging: V. ὡς ἐπεζάρει Σφὶγξ ἁρπαγαῖσι πόλιν (Eur. Phoen. 45).
v. trans.
Ar. and P. θλί̄βειν, πιέζειν, P. συμπιέζειν.
Embrace, cling to: P. and V. ἔχεσθαι (gen.), ἀντέχεσθαι (gen.); see cling.
Foot pressed against foot: V. ποὺς ἐπαλλαχθεὶς ποδί (Eur. Heracl. 836).
Touch: P. and V. ἅπτεσθαι (gen.), V. θιγγά̆νειν (gen.) (also Xen. but rare P.); see touch.
Drive: P. and V. ἐλαύνειν, ὠθεῖν.
Persuade, urge: P. and V. πείθειν, ἀ̆νᾰπείθειν, V. ἐκπείθειν ; see persuade.
Press one’s views: P. ἰσχυρίζεσθαι, διισχυρίζεσθαι.
Some three people accused you before this man but did not press the charge: P. τρεῖς σέ τινες γραψάμενοι πρότεροι τοῦδε οὐκ ἐπεξῆλθον (Dem. 501).
Oppress: P. and V. πιέζειν.
Be oppressed: also P. and V. βᾰρύ̄νεσθαι.
Press hard: P. and V. βιάζεσθαι.
Be hard pressed: P. and V. πιέζεσθαι, βιάζεσθαι, πονεῖν, τᾰλαιπωρεῖν, κάμνειν, νοσεῖν (rare P.), Ar. and P. τᾰλαιπωρεῖσθαι, P. πονεῖσθαι.
His creditors were pressing him: P. οἱ χρῆσται κατήπειγον αὐτόν (Dem. 894).
Be pressed for, lack: P. and V. ἀ̆πορεῖν (gen.); see lack.
Press into one’s service: P. and V. προστί̆θεσθαί (τινα), προσποιεῖσθαί (τινα), προσλαμβά̆νειν (τινά).
V. intrans. See crowd.
Press on, v. trans. and intrans.: see hurry.
Press upon (an enemy): Ar. and P. ἐγκεῖσθαι (dat. or absol.), P. and V. προσκεῖσθαι (dat.) ἐπῐκεῖσθαι (absol.).
Pursue: P. and V. διώκειν ; see pursue.
Be urgent with: P. and V. προσκεῖσθαι (dat., V. acc. Eur. I.A. 814).
When the Sphinx pressed heavily upon the city with her ravaging: V. ὡς ἐπεζάρει Σφὶγξ ἁρπαγαῖσι πόλιν (Eur. Phoen. 45).
press
subs.
Close array: P. and V. στῖφος, τό.
Crowd: P. and V. ὄχλος, ὁ, πλῆθος, τό.
Press of business: P. ἀσχολία, ἡ.
Press for cheeses: V. τεῦχος, τό (Eur. Cycl. 208).
Pressed out (of cheese), adj.: V. ἐξημελγμένος (Eur. Cycl. 209).
subs.
Close array: P. and V. στῖφος, τό.
Crowd: P. and V. ὄχλος, ὁ, πλῆθος, τό.
Press of business: P. ἀσχολία, ἡ.
Press for cheeses: V. τεῦχος, τό (Eur. Cycl. 208).
Pressed out (of cheese), adj.: V. ἐξημελγμένος (Eur. Cycl. 209).
PRESS
v. To squeeze impose constraint premere (in nearly all the senses of the English word): comprimere (to press together): exprimere (to press out): imprimere (to press in or upon anything aliquid alicui rei or in re): niti vergere (to press with its weight upon a body; against anything in aliquid; Vid: Plin. 2 65 65): urere (to cause pain by pressing; to pinch as a shoe): vexare: pungere: cruciare (to oppress harass). To press a person’s hand manum alicujus prensare: to press a kiss upon anybody’s lips alicui or alicujus labris basium imprimere (poetical); osculum alicui applicare (poetical): to press anybody to one’s bosom aliquem premere ad pectus or ad corpus suum (poetical); aliquem arctius complecti aliquem amplexi (to embrace): to be pressed to death in a crowd prae turba elidi exanimarique.
To urge premere aliquem (general term): urgere aliquem or absolutely (to urge or press hard): instare alicui or absolutely (to press close upon the heels; all these three especially as military terms of pressing an enemy): vexare (to harass annoy attack etc. on different sides; also as a military term): propellere (to drive forward). To press the enemy in front and in rear hostem a fronte et a tergo urgere: to be hard pressed in angustias adductum esse; in angustias esse or versari; acriter urgeri (by creditors): when the creditors pressed hard instantibus creditoribus: necessity pressed him necessitas eum premebat: to press one’s self upon anybody se ingerere or se obtrudere alicui; se venditare alicui: to be pressed for time or by business multis occupationibus distineri.
To try earnestly to persuade petere ab aliquo: contendere a aliquo ut: instare (absolutely or with infinitive or with ut ne): sollicitare aliquem ad aliquid or with ut. To press anybody earnestly summe contendere ab aliquo (e.g. cum a me peteret et summe contenderet ut suum propinquum defenderem Cic.): Hortensius presses you to confer etc. tibi instat Hortensius ut eas in consilium etc.: if you press him te instante.
To act upon with weight make smooth by compression put anything in a press prelo premere: to press grapes uvas in torcular deferre prelisque subjicere ut quantum possit exprimatur (Col. 12 52 10): to press clothes vestes ponderibus premere (Sen.); cloth *pannum ponderibus premere (after Sen.): *pannum prelo bene solidare (Bau.).
To force constrain; to press sailors nautas vi comparare (after Caes. B.G. 3 9 in.): remiges in supplementum extrahere (after Liv. 26 36 extr.).
v. To squeeze impose constraint premere (in nearly all the senses of the English word): comprimere (to press together): exprimere (to press out): imprimere (to press in or upon anything aliquid alicui rei or in re): niti vergere (to press with its weight upon a body; against anything in aliquid; Vid: Plin. 2 65 65): urere (to cause pain by pressing; to pinch as a shoe): vexare: pungere: cruciare (to oppress harass). To press a person’s hand manum alicujus prensare: to press a kiss upon anybody’s lips alicui or alicujus labris basium imprimere (poetical); osculum alicui applicare (poetical): to press anybody to one’s bosom aliquem premere ad pectus or ad corpus suum (poetical); aliquem arctius complecti aliquem amplexi (to embrace): to be pressed to death in a crowd prae turba elidi exanimarique.
To urge premere aliquem (general term): urgere aliquem or absolutely (to urge or press hard): instare alicui or absolutely (to press close upon the heels; all these three especially as military terms of pressing an enemy): vexare (to harass annoy attack etc. on different sides; also as a military term): propellere (to drive forward). To press the enemy in front and in rear hostem a fronte et a tergo urgere: to be hard pressed in angustias adductum esse; in angustias esse or versari; acriter urgeri (by creditors): when the creditors pressed hard instantibus creditoribus: necessity pressed him necessitas eum premebat: to press one’s self upon anybody se ingerere or se obtrudere alicui; se venditare alicui: to be pressed for time or by business multis occupationibus distineri.
To try earnestly to persuade petere ab aliquo: contendere a aliquo ut: instare (absolutely or with infinitive or with ut ne): sollicitare aliquem ad aliquid or with ut. To press anybody earnestly summe contendere ab aliquo (e.g. cum a me peteret et summe contenderet ut suum propinquum defenderem Cic.): Hortensius presses you to confer etc. tibi instat Hortensius ut eas in consilium etc.: if you press him te instante.
To act upon with weight make smooth by compression put anything in a press prelo premere: to press grapes uvas in torcular deferre prelisque subjicere ut quantum possit exprimatur (Col. 12 52 10): to press clothes vestes ponderibus premere (Sen.); cloth *pannum ponderibus premere (after Sen.): *pannum prelo bene solidare (Bau.).
To force constrain; to press sailors nautas vi comparare (after Caes. B.G. 3 9 in.): remiges in supplementum extrahere (after Liv. 26 36 extr.).
s. Instrument by which anything is pressed prelum (general term); torculum torcular (for grapes etc.): tormemum (for clothes; Sen. Tranq. 1 3; later pressorium). To put clothes in a press vestes ponderibus premere (Sen.): the beam of a press arbor vectis: press-room torcular; cella torcularia.
Instrument for printing; printing prelum (general term). To send a book to press *librum litterarum formis exscribendum curare: *librum prelo subjicere: *librum edere (to publish): to be in the press *sub prelo esse (☞ not sub prelo sudare); *litterarum formis exscribi; *prelum exercere or subiisse: a book fresh from the press liber adhuc musteus (Plin.): to come from the press *prodire ex officina typographica; edi; emitti: a sheet that has passed through the press *plagula typis exscripta: to have passed through the press *prelum reliquisse: error of the press *mendum typographicum (when a wrong letter is used etc.): *erratum typographicum (if a wrong word is put as Cic. Att. 6 1 17 erratum fabrile; post-Augustan error; Vid: Quint. 1 5 47): *peccatum typographi (as a fault of the compositor Cic. Tusc. 3 20 47 paucis verbis tria magna peccata): *vitium typographicum (a blunder destroying the sense; Vid: Quint. 1 5 5 sq.): a book disfigured by errors of the press *liber mendosus or mendose descriptus: a book free from errors of the press *liber emendate descriptus or ab omnibus mendis purus.
Act of printing and publishing; e.g. the liberty of the press *libertas sentiendi quae velis et quae sentias litterarum formis exscribendi; or *libertas quae sentias litterarum formis describendi: in a republic the freedom of the press is a first principle etc. in civitate sentire quae velis et quae sentias litterarum formis exscribere licet (after Tac. Hist. 1 1 4): in a free country the freedom of the press should be conceded in libera civitate linguam mentemque liberas esse oportet.
Instrument for printing; printing prelum (general term). To send a book to press *librum litterarum formis exscribendum curare: *librum prelo subjicere: *librum edere (to publish): to be in the press *sub prelo esse (☞ not sub prelo sudare); *litterarum formis exscribi; *prelum exercere or subiisse: a book fresh from the press liber adhuc musteus (Plin.): to come from the press *prodire ex officina typographica; edi; emitti: a sheet that has passed through the press *plagula typis exscripta: to have passed through the press *prelum reliquisse: error of the press *mendum typographicum (when a wrong letter is used etc.): *erratum typographicum (if a wrong word is put as Cic. Att. 6 1 17 erratum fabrile; post-Augustan error; Vid: Quint. 1 5 47): *peccatum typographi (as a fault of the compositor Cic. Tusc. 3 20 47 paucis verbis tria magna peccata): *vitium typographicum (a blunder destroying the sense; Vid: Quint. 1 5 5 sq.): a book disfigured by errors of the press *liber mendosus or mendose descriptus: a book free from errors of the press *liber emendate descriptus or ab omnibus mendis purus.
Act of printing and publishing; e.g. the liberty of the press *libertas sentiendi quae velis et quae sentias litterarum formis exscribendi; or *libertas quae sentias litterarum formis describendi: in a republic the freedom of the press is a first principle etc. in civitate sentire quae velis et quae sentias litterarum formis exscribere licet (after Tac. Hist. 1 1 4): in a free country the freedom of the press should be conceded in libera civitate linguam mentemque liberas esse oportet.
press (v.):
A. Trans.:
I. To apply physical pressure: prĕmo, ssi, ssum, 3: they p.'d their babes to their breasts, pressere ad pectora natos, Virg. Aen. 7, 518. Esp. comps. (1). comprĭmo, 3 (to press together; compress): Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 145: Hor. To p. any one's hand, *manum (dextram) alicujus prehensam comprimere. (2). imprĭmo, 3 (to p. upon): to p. a cupping-glass upon the body, cucurbitulam (corpori) imp., Cels. 2, 11: more usu. =TO IMPRINT , q. v. (3). exprĭmo, 3 (to p. out): Cic.: Plin. (4). dēprĭmo, 3 (to p. down or deep): Lucr.: Virg. See also TO CRUSH ; SQUEEZE .
II. To make cheese, oil, by pressing: prĕmo, 3: to p. cheese, caseum p., Virg. E. 1, 35: to p. oil, oleum p., Col. 12, 50. The act of p.ing, pressura, ib. 36.
III. To urge forcibly, in war:
1. urgeo, si, 2 (to bear hard upon): to be (hard) p.'d by the enemy, ab hoste urgeri, Caes. B. G. 2, 26: Liv. 10, 36, med.: Sall. Fig.: to p. any one with questions, u. aliquem interrogando, Cic. Or 40, 137.
2. prĕmo, 3 (esp. to direct hostile movements against): to p. the enemy from a position of advantage, (hostes) ex superiore loco p., Caes. B. G. 19. Join: [nostros] premere et instare, id. B. C. 3, 46.
3. insto, stĭti, 1 (to urge the attack on: with dat.): to p. an enemy's retreat, cedenti (hosti) i., Liv. 10, 36, init. Join: instare atque urgere, Cic.
IV. To urge with persistency: insto, 1; insisto, 3: v.TO URGE .
V. To impress for service: Phr.: to p. sailors, *nautas vi cogere, comparare.
B. Intrans.:
I. To incline by pressure: nītor, sus and xus, 3: to p. inwards (of the globe), in interiora n., Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 165. Also in sim. sense, vergere [in centrum], ferri [in inferiora], ib. See alsoTO INCLINE .
II. To be urgent: flāgĭto, 1: but the postman p.'s, sed fl. tabellarius, Cic. Fam. 15, 18, extr. See alsoTO PRESS UPON ; URGE .
A. Trans.:
I. To apply physical pressure: prĕmo, ssi, ssum, 3: they p.'d their babes to their breasts, pressere ad pectora natos, Virg. Aen. 7, 518. Esp. comps. (1). comprĭmo, 3 (to press together; compress): Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 145: Hor. To p. any one's hand, *manum (dextram) alicujus prehensam comprimere. (2). imprĭmo, 3 (to p. upon): to p. a cupping-glass upon the body, cucurbitulam (corpori) imp., Cels. 2, 11: more usu. =
II. To make cheese, oil, by pressing: prĕmo, 3: to p. cheese, caseum p., Virg. E. 1, 35: to p. oil, oleum p., Col. 12, 50. The act of p.ing, pressura, ib. 36.
III. To urge forcibly, in war:
1. urgeo, si, 2 (to bear hard upon): to be (hard) p.'d by the enemy, ab hoste urgeri, Caes. B. G. 2, 26: Liv. 10, 36, med.: Sall. Fig.: to p. any one with questions, u. aliquem interrogando, Cic. Or 40, 137.
2. prĕmo, 3 (esp. to direct hostile movements against): to p. the enemy from a position of advantage, (hostes) ex superiore loco p., Caes. B. G. 19. Join: [nostros] premere et instare, id. B. C. 3, 46.
3. insto, stĭti, 1 (to urge the attack on: with dat.): to p. an enemy's retreat, cedenti (hosti) i., Liv. 10, 36, init. Join: instare atque urgere, Cic.
IV. To urge with persistency: insto, 1; insisto, 3: v.
V. To impress for service: Phr.: to p. sailors, *nautas vi cogere, comparare.
B. Intrans.:
I. To incline by pressure: nītor, sus and xus, 3: to p. inwards (of the globe), in interiora n., Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 165. Also in sim. sense, vergere [in centrum], ferri [in inferiora], ib. See also
II. To be urgent: flāgĭto, 1: but the postman p.'s, sed fl. tabellarius, Cic. Fam. 15, 18, extr. See also
press (subs.):
I. Act of pressing, in fig. sense: v.PRESSURE .
II. A machine:
1. prēlum (most gen. term): for wine or oil, Cato: Col.: Virg. Esp. in mod. Latin, the printing-press: to send (a work) to the p., prelo subjicere, Ruhnk. (Kr.): to be in the p., sub prelo esse, Kr.: to issue from the p., prelo exire: see alsoTO PRINT , PUBLISH .
2. torcŭlar, āris, n. (for making wine or oil): Plin. 18, 26, 62: Vitr.: Col. Also, torcularium, Cato.
3. pressōrium (late and rare): Amm. Phr.: an error of the p., *mendum s. erratum typographicum; vitium typographicum (a stronger expr.); also *sphalma preli: a book full of errors of the p., *liber mendosissimus, mendis typographicis creberrimus. Meton.: a free p., *jus omnia, quaecunque scribuntur, in publicum edendi; libertas scripta omnia in publicum edendi, s. publicandi: in that country the p. is under control, *nemini illic scripta publicare licet nisi potestate per litteras data.
I. Act of pressing, in fig. sense: v.
II. A machine:
1. prēlum (most gen. term): for wine or oil, Cato: Col.: Virg. Esp. in mod. Latin, the printing-press: to send (a work) to the p., prelo subjicere, Ruhnk. (Kr.): to be in the p., sub prelo esse, Kr.: to issue from the p., prelo exire: see also
2. torcŭlar, āris, n. (for making wine or oil): Plin. 18, 26, 62: Vitr.: Col. Also, torcularium, Cato.
3. pressōrium (late and rare): Amm. Phr.: an error of the p., *mendum s. erratum typographicum; vitium typographicum (a stronger expr.); also *sphalma preli: a book full of errors of the p., *liber mendosissimus, mendis typographicis creberrimus. Meton.: a free p., *jus omnia, quaecunque scribuntur, in publicum edendi; libertas scripta omnia in publicum edendi, s. publicandi: in that country the p. is under control, *nemini illic scripta publicare licet nisi potestate per litteras data.
πιέζω
to press, squeeze; oppress, distress
θλίβω
to press, squeeze, pinch
clothes-press
κατασπεύδω
to press, urge
καταφλάω
press, crush
κλόνος
any confused motion, the press of battle, battle-rout, turmoil
νάσσω
to press
παραθλίβω
press at the side
πιεστήρ
squeezer : press
προσειλέω
to press
προσθλίβω
press
στεμφυλούργιον
wine-press
στροβεύς
screw-press
συμπιέζω
to press
τροπήϊον
press
τρυγητήριον
wine-press
ἀπιπόω
to press
ἀποθλίβω
to press upon, press, squeeze out
ἐκπιεστήριον
press
ἐλαιοτρίβιον
oil-press
ἐλαιοτρόπιον
olive-press
ἐλαιούργιον
oil-press
ἐλαϊστήριον
olive-press
ἐμπιέζω
press, squeeze
ἰπόω
press, squeeze
to press, squeeze; oppress, distress
θλίβω
to press, squeeze, pinch
appearing fewer than 50 times
κανδύταλιςclothes-press
κατασπεύδω
to press, urge
καταφλάω
press, crush
κλόνος
any confused motion, the press of battle, battle-rout, turmoil
νάσσω
to press
παραθλίβω
press at the side
πιεστήρ
squeezer : press
προσειλέω
to press
προσθλίβω
press
στεμφυλούργιον
wine-press
στροβεύς
screw-press
συμπιέζω
to press
τροπήϊον
press
τρυγητήριον
wine-press
ἀπιπόω
to press
ἀποθλίβω
to press upon, press, squeeze out
ἐκπιεστήριον
press
ἐλαιοτρίβιον
oil-press
ἐλαιοτρόπιον
olive-press
ἐλαιούργιον
oil-press
ἐλαϊστήριον
olive-press
ἐμπιέζω
press, squeeze
ἰπόω
press, squeeze
premo
to press
urgeo
press, push, force, drive, impel, urge
hortor
to urge, press, incite, instigate, encourage, cheer, exhort
flagito
to demand urgently, require, entreat, solicit, press, importune, dun
incumbo
to lay oneself, lean, press, support oneself
stipo
to crowd together, compress, press, pack
to make thick, thicken, pack, close, press
denso
to make thick, thicken, press, pack, close
prelum
a press
presso
to press
urgueo
to press, push, force, drive, impel, urge
to press
urgeo
press, push, force, drive, impel, urge
hortor
to urge, press, incite, instigate, encourage, cheer, exhort
flagito
to demand urgently, require, entreat, solicit, press, importune, dun
incumbo
to lay oneself, lean, press, support oneself
stipo
to crowd together, compress, press, pack
appearing fewer than 50 times
denseoto make thick, thicken, pack, close, press
denso
to make thick, thicken, press, pack, close
prelum
a press
presso
to press
urgueo
to press, push, force, drive, impel, urge
Press
See prelum.