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incalesco

to grow warm

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de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

in-călesco — Lewis & Short

in-călesco, calŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to grow warm or hot, to glow (mostly poet.; not in Cic.).

I Lit.: incalescente sole, Liv. 22, 6, 9: anni tempore jam incalescente, Col. 2, 4, 1: cum videas ordinem rerum per constituta procedere ... aestas suo tempore incaluit, Sen. Q. N. 3, 16, 3 Haase (al. incanduit): incaluerant vino, Liv. 1, 57, 8; cf.: incaluit vis illa mali (i. e. veneni), Ov. M. 9, 161: quis nostro curvum te funere vidit? Atram quis lacrimis incaluisse togam? to glow with burning tears, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 28.—

II Trop., to glow, kindle with passion (esp. love): ergo ubi vaticinos concepit mente furores Incaluitque deo, Ov. M. 2, 641: vidit et incaluit pelagi deus, id. ib. 2, 574; 3, 371; id. H. 11, 25: acres Incaluere animi (equorum), id. M. 2, 87; id. P. 3, 4, 30: C. Gracchus, Flor. 3, 15, 1: laetitiā incaluisse, Tac. H. 4, 14: virtus incaluit, Luc. 6, 240: ad magnas cogitationes, Tac. G. 22.

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