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in-cŏquo , xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,
I.to boil in or with any thing, to boil down, to boil, seethe (not in Cic. or Cæs.).
B. Transf., to dip in, to dye: “incocti corpora Mauri,colored by the sun, sunburnt, Sil. 17, 637: vellera Tyrios incocta rubores (acc. Graec.), Verg. G. 3, 307: “stannum aereis operibus,” i. e. to tin over, Plin. 39, 17, 48, § 162.—
II. Trop. (poet.): “incoctum generoso pectus honesto (for imbutum),imbued, filled with nobleness, Pers. 2, 74: “quos autem plena justitia et maturitas virtutis incoxerit,Lact. 7, 21, 6.
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    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.307
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.279
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.17
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 20.56
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 37.46
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 3.22
    • Persius, Saturae, 2
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