Significatio vocis nūtus | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a nod, nodding
   declension-4
2. a downward tendency or motion; the pull of gravity
   declension-4
3. a command, will, pleasure (the nod as an expression of will and authority: compare nūmen)
   declension-4

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“ad nūtum praestō esse”

to be at one's complete disposal

“Ariovistum autem […] superbe et crudeliter imperare, obsides nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque edere, si qua res non ad nutum aut ad voluntatem eius facta sit.”

Moreover, [as for] Ariovistus, […] [he began] to lord it haughtily and cruelly, to demand as hostages the children of all the principal nobles, and wreak on them every kind of cruelty, if every thing was not done at his nod or pleasure.

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