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in-grăvesco , 3 (in tmesi:
I.“inque gravescunt,” Lucr. 4, 1250), v. inch. n., to grow heavy, become heavier.
I. Lit.: “corpora exercitationum defatigatione ingravescunt,” Cic. de Sen. 11, 36: “sal vix incredibili pondere ingravescit,” Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 79. — Poet., to become pregnant: “suscipiunt aliae pondus magis inque gravescunt,” Lucr. 4, 1250.—
II. Transf., to increase; grow worse, to become burdensome: “ingravescens morbus,” Cic. Div. 2, 6, 16: “ingravescens aetas,” id. de Sen. 2, 6: “corpora exercitationum defetigatione ingravescunt,” id. de Sen. 11, 36: “hoc studium quotidie ingravescit,” grows more serious, id. Fam. 4, 4, 4: “alter in dies ingravescit,” id. Att. 10, 4, 2: annona, provisions grow dearer, Auct. Or. pro Domo, 5, 11: “Verania mox ingravescit, clamat moriens, etc.,” Plin. Ep. 2, 20, 5: “falsis (rumoribus) ingravescebat,” by false reports he sank deeper and deeper, Tac. H. 3, 54.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 4.4.4
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 10.4.2
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 3.54
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1250
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 2.20.5
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.6
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