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excussa

excussa is a Latin form of excutio, meaning “shake out, shake off; drive out; examine”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 26: … ant occulta, necessario ab eis qui ea tenebant petebantur; postea vero pervolgata atque in manibus iactata et excussa, inanissima prudentiae reperta sunt, fraudis autem et stultitiae plenissima.

Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 1.7·2: … e, sed auaros: feci ut desperarent posse redimi. an prudenter cogitauerim nescio; interim feliciter cogitaui. Excussa mens est ex quo uidi unum in arce filium, alterum in adulterio, tertium in parricidio, relictus solus, orbus, …

All forms of excutio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.