English

Adjective

dolose

1. (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 0199562792), 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.

Italian

Adjective

dolose

1. feminine plural of doloso

Latin

Adjective

dolōse

1. vocative masculine singular of dolōsus

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dolose”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.