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/ləˈtɪbjʊləm/ · noun
(obsolete) A concealed hiding place, especially of an animal; a burrow, hole, or lair..
[T]he Roman church had made this latibulum, this hiding place, this refuge from persecution, hermitages and monasteries, to be the most conspicuous, the most glorious, the most eminent, the richest and most abundant places of the world; […]
[I]t never can be certainlie found, vvhat are her opinions of any point, or vvhen ſhe hath declared her ſelfe: As […] appeares by your refuſing to leave your Latibula; and declare plainlie your opinion concerning it, vvhich if you ſavv defenſible, and you vvere all agreed about it, you vvould quicklie have done, […]
[I] found your curious diligence, looking, not only unto Civill ſocieties, but prying alſo unto the ruder crouds and ſilveſtrous heards of mankinde, peeping into every latibulum and ſolitary buſh to devellope the effects and incongruous reſults of the phantaſticall projects of (the novv little better then the perfecter ſort of ape called Man) […]
[T]hoſe very Forms and Qualities, and the Self-moving povver of Body, vvhich vvere commonly made a Sanctuary for Atheiſm, might notvvithſtanding chance to prove, contrarivviſe, the Latibulum and Aſylum of a Deity, and that a Corporeal God […] might lie lurking under them, aſſaulting mens minds vvith doubtful Fears and Jealouſies; […]
Thou lord art my ſhadovv, my refuge, my fortreſs, my labitulum and hiding place, and my defence.
[E]very VVaſps-Neſt is begun by one great Mother-VVaſp, vvhich over-lives the VVinter, lying hid in ſome hollovv Tree, or other Latibulum.
Theſe little Frogs are invited from the Brooks, and Ponds, and out of their Latibula, in or immediately after the vvarmer Summer Shovvers, by the kindly and grateful Humidity vvhich is then in the Air and Earth: […]
But the vvorſt of the reptile Kind are Moles, vvhich damage the Corn and Graſs, though they compenſate that Detriment by affording a freer Paſſage to the Rain thro' their Latibula.
Use latibulum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Latibulum means (obsolete) A concealed hiding place, especially of an animal; a burrow, hole, or lair..
Common synonyms include cuniculus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[T]he Roman church had made this latibulum, this hiding place, this refuge from persecution, hermitages and monasteries, to be the most conspicuous, the most glorious, the most eminent, the richest and most abundant places of the world; […]
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