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exsicco
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Lewis Short
(v. a.P. a.) : ex-sicco (exicc-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
* To dry up, make quite dry (class.).
* In gen.: arbores,Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33: sulcos,Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 242.—Transf., of an abstr. subject: ebrietas, donec exsiccetur,is exhaled, passes off,Sen. Q. N. 3, 20 fin.— Trop.: spiritus tristis exsiccat ossa,Vulg. Prov. 17, 22.
* In partic., to drain dry, to empty a bottle (= epotare, cum aliqua aviditatis significatione): lagenae furtim exsiccatae, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2; for which poet.: vina culullis,Hor. C. 1, 31, 11; cf. of the sea: mare,Vulg. Nahum, 1, 4 al.—Hence, * exsiccātus (exicc-), a, um, P. a., dried up, dry, jejune: orationis genus,Cic. Brut. 84, 291.
* To dry up, make quite dry (class.).
* In gen.: arbores,Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33: sulcos,Plin. 18, 26, 65, § 242.—Transf., of an abstr. subject: ebrietas, donec exsiccetur,is exhaled, passes off,Sen. Q. N. 3, 20 fin.— Trop.: spiritus tristis exsiccat ossa,Vulg. Prov. 17, 22.
* In partic., to drain dry, to empty a bottle (= epotare, cum aliqua aviditatis significatione): lagenae furtim exsiccatae, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2; for which poet.: vina culullis,Hor. C. 1, 31, 11; cf. of the sea: mare,Vulg. Nahum, 1, 4 al.—Hence, * exsiccātus (exicc-), a, um, P. a., dried up, dry, jejune: orationis genus,Cic. Brut. 84, 291.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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