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ex-cŏquo , xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,
I.to boil out, melt out, dry up.
I. Lit.: “usque coquito, dum dimidium excoquas,” i. e. you boil away, Cato, R. R. 107, 2: “mustum ad dimidium,Col. 12, 19, 1: “testudinem vino,to boil thoroughly, Plin. 32, 4, 14, § 38: “glebas melle,id. 37, 12, 74, § 194: “ferrum (ignis),” i. e. to harden, Ov. M. 14, 712: “harenas admixto nitro in vitrum,Tac. H. 5, 7: “lapide cremato in caminis donec excoquatur in rubricam,Plin. 34, 13, 37, § 135: “ignis vitium metallis excoquit,Ov. F. 4, 786: “omne per ignes vitium,Verg. G. 1, 88; “hence, excoctum argentum,” i. e. purified, Gell. 6, 5, 9; cf.: “excoxi te, non quasi argentum,Vulg. Isa. 48, 10: “imagines excoctae flammis,melted down, Plin. Pan. 52, 5: “excoctum parum habet suci,Varr. L. L. 5, § 109 Müll.: “terram sol excoquit et facit are,dries up, Lucr. 6, 962; cf.: “tam excoctam (ancillam) reddam atque atram quam carbo est,Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63.—With an abstr. object: cruditatem Laconicis, qs. to boil out, i. e. to drive out by steam-baths, Col. 1 praef. § “16: excocta maturitas hordei,” i. e. overripe, Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 80.—
II. Trop.: “malum alicui,to devise, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 53 (cf. coquo): “mentem,to plague, vex, Sen. Herc. Fur. 105 (cf. coquo).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Old Testament, Isaiah, 48.10
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.712
    • Plautus, Persa, 1.1
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.88
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 5.7
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.962
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.80
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 32.38
    • Seneca, Hercules Furens, 105
    • Ovid, Fasti, 4
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