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* ob-sufflo, 1, v. a., to blow against or at, Auct. Quint. Decl. 7

ob-sum, obfui or offui, obesse (old form of fut. obescet, oberit vel aderit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 188 Müll.), v. n., to be against, be prejudicial to; to hinder, hurt, injure; opp. to prodesse (cf.: officio, noceo, injuriam facio; class.): Ty. Nunc falsa prosunt. Heg. At tibi oberunt, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 48; Ter. Hec. 3, 5, 13; cf.: men obesse, illos prodesse, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 66 (Trag. v. 84 Vahl.); and: qui (pudor) non modo non obesset ejus orationi, sed etiam probitatis commendatione prodesset, Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 122: subicimus id. quod nobis adjumento futurum sit, aut offuturum illis e contrario. Auct. Her. 4, 23, 33: obsunt auctoribus artes, Ov. M. 7, 562: ne prodigus obsit, Verg. G. 4, 89.
With a subject-clause: nec, dum degrandinat, obsit Agresti fano supposuisse pecus, Ov. F. 4, 755: nihil obest dicere, Cic. Fam. 9, 13, 4.

ob-sŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.

  1. I. To sew on (very rare): obsutum caput, Ov. F. 2, 578.
  2. II. To sew up, sew together; to stop or close up (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): nares, et spiritus oris obsuitur, Verg. G. 4, 301: sporta auri obsuta, Suet. Rhet. 1 fin.: obsuta lectica, the curtains of which are sewed together all around, id. Tib. 64.

obsurdātus, a, um, adj. [ob-surdus], rendered deaf (eccl. Lat.), Aug. in Psa. 57, 15.

obsurdĕfăcĭo, ĕre, 3, v. a. [ob-surdusfacio], to render deaf (eccl. Lat.), Aug. c. Faust. 33, 6.

ob-surdesco, dŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to become deaf (class.).

  1. I. Lit.: hoc sonitu oppletae aures hominum obsurduerunt, Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 19: si sapiens excaecatur, obsurdescat, etc., Aug. Civ. Dei, 19, 4, 4.
  2. II. Trop., to be deaf, not to give ear: obsurdescimus nescio quo modo, nec ea, quae ab eā (naturā) monemur, audimus, Cic. Lael. 24, 88: obsurduerunt aures hominum ad tam salutaria praecepta, Ambros. de Tobia, 3, 9.

obsūtus, a, um, Part., from obsuo.