dolose
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dolosus; compare dolus.
Adjective edit
dolose
- (rare, historical, law) Deceitful, with hidden malice.
- 1854, Patrick Mac Chombaich de Colquhoun, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law:
- That having been obtained, everything should be restored to the former position, and the dolose party be condemned.
- 1908, William Warwick Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave, page 692:
- Several texts tell us, however, that when the owner was a minor, there is a remedy against the dolose slave.
- 2009, Eric Descheemaeker, The Division of Wrongs: A Historical Comparative Study, →ISBN, page 72:
- A dolose act was an act committed with a view to causing damage. […] a dolose act will by construction always be culpable; on the other hand, a culpable act might either be dolose, if the occurrence of the harm was intended, or not, if it was not.
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dolose
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
dolōsē (comparative dolōsius, superlative dolōsissimē)
Adjective edit
dolōse
References edit
- “dolose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dolose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dolose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.