(verb) : ex-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3
* To boil out, melt out, dry up.
* 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.
* 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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