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ob-structĭo, ōnis, f. [obstruo], a building before or against, a closing up by building, a blocking up.
- I. Lit. (post-class.): corporum, Arn. 2, 63.
- II. Trop., an obstruction, a barrier: haec obstructio non diuturna est, Cic. Sest. 9, 22.
obstructus, a, um, Part., from obstruo.
obstrūdo, ĕre, v. obtrudo.
* obstrūdulentus, a, um [obtrudo], that can be swallowed down: obstrudulenti da aliquid, quo pectam sedens, Titin. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 193 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 134 Rib.), v. obtrudo.
ob-strŭo (opstr-), xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build before or against; to build, block, or wall up; to stop up, barricade, render impassable (class.; cf. obsaepio, claudo, oppilo).
- I. Lit.: validum pro diruto obstruentes murum, Liv. 38, 29: frontem castrorum auxiliis, id. 5, 1.
Esp., to build before so as to obstruct the light: obstructae fenestrae, Varr. R. R. 1, 4: FENESTRAS OPSTRVITO, Lex. Puteol. ap. Grut. 207, 2: luminibus alicujus, Cic. Dom. 44: jus luminum obstruendorum redimere, to purchase permission of a neighbor to build so as to obstruct his light, Inscr. Guarin. Comment. in Vet. Monument. 1, p. 64: portas, Caes. B. C. 1, 27: valvas aedis. Nep. Paus. 5: aditus, Cic. Brut. 4, 16: flumina, Caes. B. C. 3, 48: aquarum venas, Plin. 31, 3, 28, § 49: saxa, placed in the way, Ov. M. 3, 570: cujus aures morbus obstruxit, has stopped up, made deaf, Sen. Ben. 3, 17, 2: os obstruere, to close the mouth, to make silent, Vulg. Psa. 62, 12; id. Rom. 3, 19.
- II. Trop., to stop up, hinder, impede, obstruct: Catonis luminibus obstruxit haec posteriorum quasi exaggerata altius oratio, was a hinderance to, Cic. Brut. 17, 66: viri deus obstruit aures, stops, renders deaf, inexorable, Verg. A. 4, 440: perfugia improborum, shuts off, Cic. Sull. 28, 79: cognitionem difficultatibus, to impede, obstruct, id. Ac. 2, 3, 7: mentes, Tac. H. 3, 21.
- b. Intr., to be in the way: si officiens signis mons obstruet altus, Cic. Arat. 44.
(obs-trūsus, false read. for abstrusus, Sen. Ep. 68, 4.)
ob-trūdo (collat. from obstrūdo), si, sum, 3, v. a., to thrust into or against (ante- and post-class.).
- A. In gen.: titionem inguinibus, App. M. 7, p. 200 fin.
- B. In partic.
- 1. To gulp down, to swallow hastily: obtrudamus pernam, sumen, glandium, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 87.
In the form obstrudo: stans obstrusero aliquid strenue, id. Stich. 4, 2, 12; cf.: obstrudant obsatullent, ab avide trudendo ingulam, non sumendo cibum. Unde et obstrudulentum … dixit Titinius: obstrudulenti aliquid, quod pectam sedens, etc., Paul. ex Fest. p. 193 Müll.
- 2. Transf., to thrust, press, force, or obtrude upon one: virginem alicui, Ter. And. 1, 5, 15: palpum alicui, to wheedle, cajole one, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 35: arma armis, corpora corporibus, to dash, force against, Amm. 16, 12: tactu obtrudentia, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 37, 197 (but obstrusa, Sen. Ep. 68, 4, is a false reading for abstrusa).