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liquesco
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Lewis Short
lĭquesco, lĭcŭi, 3
* V. inch. n. [liqueo], to become fluid or liquid, to melt.
* Lit.: tabes nivis liquescentis,Liv. 21, 36: haec ut cera liquescit,Verg. E. 8, 80; Ov. M. 5, 431: volnificusque chalybs vastā fornace liquescit,Verg. A. 8, 446; Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 162: corpora foeda jacent ... dilapsa liquescunt,i. e. putrefy,Ov. M. 7, 550.
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* Trop.
* Of the liquid sound of l, m, n, r with other consonants, to merge, coalesce, be confined with other sounds: eorum sonus liquescit et tenuatur,Val. Prob. p. 1389 P.
* To grow soft, effeminate: qua (voluptate) cum liquescimus,Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52.
* To melt or waste away: fortuna liquescit,Ov. Ib. 425.—Of a person: minui et deperire, et, ut proprie dicam, liquescere,Sen. Ep. 26.
* V. inch. n. [liqueo], to become fluid or liquid, to melt.
* Lit.: tabes nivis liquescentis,Liv. 21, 36: haec ut cera liquescit,Verg. E. 8, 80; Ov. M. 5, 431: volnificusque chalybs vastā fornace liquescit,Verg. A. 8, 446; Plin. 37, 10, 59, § 162: corpora foeda jacent ... dilapsa liquescunt,i. e. putrefy,Ov. M. 7, 550.
* Transf.
* Trop.
* Of the liquid sound of l, m, n, r with other consonants, to merge, coalesce, be confined with other sounds: eorum sonus liquescit et tenuatur,Val. Prob. p. 1389 P.
* To grow soft, effeminate: qua (voluptate) cum liquescimus,Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52.
* To melt or waste away: fortuna liquescit,Ov. Ib. 425.—Of a person: minui et deperire, et, ut proprie dicam, liquescere,Sen. Ep. 26.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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