A Comprehensive Lexicon of Neo-Latin and Romance Literary Verbs

To write anacreontics — To write verses or poetry in the style of Anacreon; to introduce a gallant, festive, and hedonistic atmosphere into a literary work, focused on the celebration of love and wine. In a structural sense, the action involves adopting the metrical and thematic techniques specific to anacreontism, transforming the poetic discourse into a praise of the ephemeral joys of earthly existence.
To anachronize — To introduce an anachronism into a literary, historical, or cinematographic work; to place an event, object, idea, or person in a different historical era than the one to which it truly belongs. In the reflexive form, it defines the action of a phenomenon, custom, or system becoming obsolete, outdated, or completely unadapted to the requirements and spirit of the current time, thus losing its structural utility in the present.
To anagrammatize — To change the order of the letters of a word, name, or text to form a new word or statement with a completely different meaning; to make an anagram. In the reflexive form, it defines the structural property of two words or character strings to match perfectly through mutual alphabetical permutation, transforming into one another.
To pre-entitle — To give a preliminary title, to entitle in advance, or to introduce a provisional heading to a text, a chapter, a literary work, or an administrative document before its final form or official publication. As a reflexive verb, it designates the action of a section or writing to name itself in a certain way in a previous editing phase.
To injure oneself — To cause oneself, involuntarily or accidentally, a bodily injury, wound, or trauma during physical, domestic, or professional activities; to suffer an accident through one's own fault or carelessness, without the direct involvement of another person or a major external factor.
To incriminate oneself — To attribute to oneself, publicly or before a judicial authority, the commission of a criminal offense, a mistake, or a fault; to accuse oneself voluntarily, either out of moral considerations, under the pressure of an intense feeling of guilt, or within certain psychological disorders.
To self-administer — To administer a medication, substance, or medical treatment to oneself, without the direct intervention or supervision of a medical professional; also, to lead, manage, or govern oneself independently, through one's own efforts and internal resources, applied to a community, institution, or territorial entity.
To admire oneself — To admire oneself excessively, often with a feeling of exaggerated pride, vanity, or narcissism; to view one's own physical qualities, achievements, or character traits with extreme satisfaction, completely ignoring the opinions or criticisms of others.
To defend oneself — To defend oneself; to directly sustain one's own interests, rights, innocence, or point of view before a court of law, an authority, or accusations brought by others, without necessarily relying on the assistance of a lawyer or legal representative; also, to physically protect oneself against an aggression or external attack through one's own efforts.
To arrogate to oneself — To appropriate, assume, or confer upon oneself a quality, merit, role, right, task, or responsibility, often arbitrarily, unjustifiably, or without the prior approval of an authority or group.
Self-attributed — Voluntarily assumed, claimed, or conferred upon oneself without external validation or official approval. It describes a title, merit, role, status, or responsibility that a person or entity has granted to themselves arbitrarily or unilaterally.
To self-flagellate — To whip or scourge oneself, as an act of ritual penance or physical mortification in certain religious practices. Figuratively and psychologically, it denotes extreme self-reproach, severe self-accusation, or excessive mental punishment over a mistake or guilt.
Self-flagellation — The act of whipping or scourging oneself; ritual self-flagellation performed as a physical penance. Figuratively and psychologically, it denotes a destructive mental process of severe self-accusation, extreme self-reproach, and exaggerated emotional punishment driven by deep guilt.
Self-flagellated — Having whipped or scourged oneself as an act of penance. Figuratively, it describes a person in a state of extreme moral self-punishment, overwhelmed by their own severe self-reproach, intense regrets, and repeated psychological accusations.
To unmask oneself — To reveal, confess, or expose on one's own initiative one's own secrets, hidden intentions, mistakes, guilt, or true identity, often involuntarily through behavior or under duress within ideological trials. In the historical context of totalitarian regimes, the action describes the act by which an individual publicly acknowledged their political deviations.
To self-name — To autonomously assign or establish one's own name, designation, or official title, without the intervention or enforcement of an external factor. In anthropology and sociology, it refers to the action of a human community or ethnic group choosing its own ethnonym (endonym), whereas in computer science it describes the ability of a script, process, or file to dynamically modify its structural name during execution.
To outdo oneself — To surpass one's own physical, intellectual, moral, or professional limits; to achieve performances superior to those previously attained by fully mobilizing one's willpower, talent, and inner resources. This conscious structural act represents the foundation of individual evolution and excellence in any field of activity.
To assist — To give help, to assist, to support, or to second a person or an action in a secondary or complementary manner; to contribute as a supporting element to the achievement of a goal or the functioning of a system.