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The _imperative_, from _impero_, to command, is literally that mood of the verb used in _commanding; _ but its technical meaning in grammar is extended to the use of the verb in exhorting, entreating, and permitting.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Si hercle ego te non elinguandam dedero usque ab radicibus, 250 impero auctorque ego sum, ut tu me cuivis castrandum loces.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Enim nil nisi ut ametis impero. ceterum quantum lubet me poscitote aurum: ego dabo. quid mihi refert Chrysalo esse nomen, nisi factis probo? sed nunc quantillum usust auri tibi, Mnesiloche? dic mihi.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Conjuro, continued the Dominie, abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!
Chapter XLVI 1917
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They assure him that he shall be a ruler; but in a beautiful romanza ( "Un impero piu soave") he replies that his love for Bertha is his only sovereignty.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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‘Conjuro,’ continued the Dominie, ‘abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!’
Guy Mannering 1815
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'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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Her big second-act aria, "D'amore al dolce impero," was met with a fate worse, coming from a Met audience, than boos: the shortest, most tepid applause I've ever heard for a prima donna showpiece.
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