(verb) : in-sūmo, mpsi, mptum, 3
* To take for any thing; hence to apply to, expend upon.
* Lit.
* In aliquid: ut nullus teruncius insumatur in quemquam,Cic. Att. 5, 17, 2: sumptum in aliquam rem,id. Inv. 2, 38, 113: sestertios tricenos in cenam,Gell. 2, 24, 11.
* Trop.
* With abl.: non est melius quo insumere possis,Hor. S. 2, 2, 102.
* To apply, employ, bestow: operam frustra,Liv. 10, 18: operam libellis accusatorum,Tac. A. 3, 44: vitam versibus,id. Or. 9.
* With in and abl.: nec in evolvenda antiquitate satis operae insumitur,Tac. Or. 29.
* To take to one's self, to take, assume: interficiendi domini animum,Tac. A. 14, 44: medium latus,Stat. Th. 2, 39: dignas insumite mentes Coeptibus,id. ib. 12, 643.
* To use up, exhaust, weaken: corpus,Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 2, 60: corporis virtutem,id. Acut. 2, 37, 213.

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