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spisso , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. id..
I. Lit., to thicken, make thick, condense (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Pliny the elder; cf. “denso): omne lac igne spissatur,” Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 238; so, “spissatum lac,” id. 20, 7, 24, § 58: “farinae modo spissatur in panem,” id. 13, 4, 9, § 47: “ignis densum spissatus in aëra transit,” Ov. M. 15, 250; cf. Luc. 4, 77: “(aquilo) sanum corpus spissat,” Cels. 2, 1 med.; cf. Plin. 26, 13, 83, § 134; Sen. Ep. 90, 10.—*
II. Trop., to urge on, hasten an action, i. e. to perform it more rapidly: “spissare officium,” Petr. 140.
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):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.250
    • Lucan, Civil War, 4.77
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 13.47
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 20.58
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.1
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 90.10
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