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Lewis Short
grăvesco, ĕre
* V. inch. n. [gravis], to become burdened or heavy (poet. and in postAug. prose).
* Lit.
* In gen.: fetu nemus omne gravescit,i. e. becomes loaded, filled,Verg. G. 2, 429.
* Trop., to become grievous or bad, to grow worse: aerumna gravescit,Lucr. 4, 1069: impetus,id. 6, 337: haec in morte,id. 3, 1022: valetudo Augusti,Tac. A. 1, 5: publica mala in dies,id. ib. 14, 51.
* To be cumbered, embarrassed, Ambros. de Virg. 1, 6, 25: peccato gravescit oratio,id. in Psa. 118, Serm. 22, § 5.
* V. inch. n. [gravis], to become burdened or heavy (poet. and in postAug. prose).
* Lit.
* In gen.: fetu nemus omne gravescit,i. e. becomes loaded, filled,Verg. G. 2, 429.
* Trop., to become grievous or bad, to grow worse: aerumna gravescit,Lucr. 4, 1069: impetus,id. 6, 337: haec in morte,id. 3, 1022: valetudo Augusti,Tac. A. 1, 5: publica mala in dies,id. ib. 14, 51.
* To be cumbered, embarrassed, Ambros. de Virg. 1, 6, 25: peccato gravescit oratio,id. in Psa. 118, Serm. 22, § 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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