(verb) : ăd-hĭbĕo, ŭi, ĭtum, 2, habeo
* To hold toward or to, to turn, bring, add to; with ad, in, dat. or absol.
* In gen.
* Lit.: cur non adhibuisti, dum istaec loquereris, tympanum,Plaut. Poen. 5, 5, 38: huc adhibete aurīs (ad ea) quae ego loquar,id. Ps. 1, 2, 20: ad mea formosos vultus adhibete carmina,Ov. Am. 2, 1, 37; cf. ib. 13, 15: manus medicas ad vulnera,Verg. G. 3, 455: odores ad deos,Cic. N. D. 1, 40: quos negat ad panem adhibere quidquam, praeter nasturtium,to eat with it,Cic. Tusc. 5, 34: alicui calcaria,id. Brut. 56 (cf. addere calcar, v. addo): manus genibus adhibet, i. e. admovet, genua amplexatur,Ov. M. 9, 216: vincula captis,to put them on them,id. F. 3, 293.
* Esp.
* Of persons, to bring one to a place, to summon, to employ (cf. the Engl. to have one up): hoc temere numquam amittam ego a me, quin mihi testes adhibeam,Ter. Ph. 4, 5, 2; so Cic. Fin. 2, 21; Tac. A. 15, 14: medicum,Cic. Fat. 12: leges, ad quas (sc. defendendas) adhibemur,we are summoned,id. Clu. 52: nec, quoniam apud Graecos judices res agetur, poteris adhibere Demosthenem,id. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: adhibebitur heros,shall be brought upon the stage,Hor. A. P. 227: castris adhibere socios et foedera jungere,Verg. A. 8, 56: aliquem in partem periculi,Ov. M. 11, 447: in auxilium,Just. 3, 6.
* Adhibere aliquid, in gen., to use, employ, exercise: neque quisquam parsimoniam adhibet,Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 79: fidem,id. Rud. 4, 3, 104: celeritatem,Cic. Fam. 10, 21, 2: calumniam, fraudem, dolum, id. Auct. Or. pro Dom. 14, 36: modum quemdam,Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 38; Suet. Calig. 2: nulla arte adhibita,Caes. B. C. 3, 26: sollertiam, Tibull. 3, 4, 75: querelas,Plin. Ep. 1, 12: adhibere moram = differre,Pompon. Dig. 18, 6, 16.
* In later Lat.: alicui aliquem, to bring up, quote one to another as authority for an assertion: is nos aquam multam ex diluta nive bibentis coërcebat, severiusque increpabat adhibebatque nobis auctoritates nobilium medicorum,Gell. 19, 5, 3.
* Adhibere se ad aliquid, to betake or apply one's self to a thing, i. e. to devote attention to it: adhibere se remotum a curis veram ad rationem,Lucr. 1, 44 (cf. above I. A.); and absol.: adhibere se, to appear or to behave one's self in any manner: permagni est hominis, sic se adhibere in tanta potestate, ut nulla alia potestas ab iis, quibus ipse praeest, desideretur,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 7.
* Adhibere aliquid ad aliquid, alicui rei, or with in and abl., to put a thing to a determinate use, to apply, to use or employ for or in any thing definite (therefore, with intention and deliberation; on the contr., usurpare denotes merely momentary use; cf. Cic. Lael. 2, 8; and uti, use that arises from some necessity, Herz. ad Caes. B. G. 1, 20): adhibere omnem diligentiam ad convalescendum,Cic. Fam. 16, 9; cf. ib. 6; Nep. Att. 21: cautionem privatis rebus suis,Cic. Att. 1, 19: medicinam aegroto,id. ib. 16, 15: humatis titulum, i. e. inscriptionem addere,Liv. 26, 25: belli necessitatibus patientiam,id. 5, 6: fraudem testamento,Suet. Dom. 2: curam viis,id. Vesp. 5: fidem et diligentiam in amicorum periculis,Cic. Clu. 42, 118: misericordiam in fortunis alicujus et sapientiam in salute reip.,id. Rab. Perd. 2: flores in causis,id. Or. 19: curam in valetudine tuenda,Cels. 3, 18; and with de: curam de aliqua re,Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 3: modum, to set a limit to, to set bounds to: vitio,Cic. Tusc. 4, 17: sumptibus,Suet. Ner. 16: cf. id. Aug. 100; id. Tib. 34: voluptati,Quint. 9, 3, 74: memoriam contumeliae,to retain it in memory,Nep. Epam. 7.

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