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|lshtext=<b>rē&#774;-fringo</b>: frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. [[frango]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[break]] up, [[break]] [[open]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[perfringo]], [[dissicio]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: cellas, Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 10: postes portasque, Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 622, and ap. Hor. S. 1, 4, 61 (Ann. v. 271 Vahl.); Caes. B. G. 2, 33; Liv. 10, 43; 24, 30; 25, 9 et saep. al.: januam, Tac. A. 14, 8: palatii fores, id. H. 1, 35: [[claustra]], Cic. Mur. 8, 17; Val. Fl. 1, 595: carcerem, Liv. 34, 44 fin.: glaebam et revolvere in pulverem, Col. 11, 2, 60: totas refringere vestes, to [[tear]] [[open]], Ov. M. 9, 208: radium solis refringi, is refracted, Plin. 2, 59, 60, § 150.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In gen., to [[break]], [[break]] in pieces, [[break]] [[off]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): quae demersa liquore obeunt, refracta videntur Omnia convorti sursumque supina revorti, Lucr. 4, 440: refringit virgulta pede [[vago]], Cat. 63, 86: ramum, to [[break]] [[off]], * Verg. A. 6, 210; so, mucronem, Plin. 8, 15, 17, § 41; cf. aculeos, Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 3: silvas ([[Hyleus]]), Stat. Th. 4, 139. —<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[break]], [[break]] in pieces, [[check]], [[weaken]], [[destroy]], etc.: vim fluminis, Caes. B. G. 7, 56; cf. Liv. 5, 37: impotentem dominationem, Nep. Lys. 1, 4; cf.: Teutonicas [[opes]], Frop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 44: nec Priami [[domus]] Achivos refringit, Hor. C. 3, 3, 28: ingeniorum [[impetus]], Plin. Ep. 9, 26, 7: [[claustra]] pudoris et reverentiae, id. ib. 2, 14, 4: verba, to [[mutilate]] or [[mangle]] [[speech]], [[like]] children, Stat. S. 2, 1, 123.