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derigesco

derigesco

to become stiff

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What it meant

dē-rĭgesco — Lewis & Short

dē-rĭgesco, gŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. (occurring only in the perf.), to become stiff or rigid; to curdle (a poet. word): formidine sanguis deriguit, Verg. A. 3, 260: deriguere oculi, were fixed, id. ib. 7, 447; so, oculi, Ov. M. 14, 754: hirsutae comae, id. F. 3, 332: manus, Luc. 3, 613: cervix, Ov. M. 5, 233: Niobe malis, id. ib. 6, 303 (al. diriguit).

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