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{{Woodhouse1
|Text=[[File:woodhouse_217.jpg|thumb
|link={{filepath:woodhouse_217.jpg}}]]'''adj.'''

[[hopeless]]: P. [[ἀνέλπιστος]].

[[impossible to deal with]]: P. and V. [[ἄπορος]], V. [[ἀμήχανος]] (rare P.).

Of persons: P. [[ἀπονενοημένος]]; see [[despairing]].

[[precarious]]: P. [[ἐπικίνδυνος]], [[ἐπισφαλής]].

[[incurable]]: P. and V. [[ἀνήκεστος]], V. [[δύσκηλος]]; see [[incurable]].

[[fierce]], [[obstinale]]: P. [[ἰσχυρός]].

[[be in desperate straits]], v.: P. ἀπόρως διακεῖσθαι.

[[desperate straits]], subs.: P. and V. ἄπορον, τό, or pl., V. ἀμήχανον, τό, or pl. (rare P.).

[[desperate remedies]]: P. διακεκινδυνευμένα φάρμακα (Isoc.).
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>dēspērātē</b>:<br /><b>I</b> adv., [[hopelessly]], etc., v. [[despero]], P. a., no. 2. fin.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>dēspērātē</b>, c. [[desperanter]] : Aug. Ep. 56, 2 &#124;&#124; desperatius Aug. Conf. 6, 15 ; Cassian. Coll. 4, 20.||desperatius Aug. Conf. 6, 15 ; Cassian. Coll. 4, 20.
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{{Georges
|georg=dēspērātē, Adv. m. Compar. ([[desperatus]]), [[hoffnungslos]], [[vel]] [[securus]] [[vel]] [[certe]] [[non]] d. [[sollicitus]], Augustin. epist. 56, 2: [[vulnus]] [[quasi]] frigidius, [[sed]] desperatius dolebat, Augustin. conf. 6, 15: desperatius aegrotare, Cassian. coll. 4, 20 extr.
}}
{{LaEn
|lnetxt=desperate ADV :: desperately, hopelessly; tremendously, very
}}