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obstitit

obstitit is a Latin form of obsto, meaning “stand in the way, hinder, oppose (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.82: … ioque abesset, ipse autem remoto atque ablegato viro non liberius quam antea—quis enim umquam istius libidini obstitit?—sed paulo solutiore animo tamen secum illam haberet, si non tamquam virum sed tamquam aemulum removisset.

Ovid, Heroides 18.35: Obstitit inceptis tumidum iuvenalibus aequor,

All forms of obsto (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.