The corpus record — Latin

obsurdesco

to become deaf

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Where it lives

Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ob-surdesco — Lewis & Short

ob-surdesco, dŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to become deaf (class.).

I Lit.: hoc sonitu oppletae aures hominum obsurduerunt, Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 19: si sapiens excaecatur, obsurdescat, etc., Aug. Civ. Dei, 19, 4, 4.—

II Trop., to be deaf, not to give ear: obsurdescimus nescio quo modo, nec ea, quae ab eā (naturā) monemur, audimus, Cic. Lael. 24, 88: obsurduerunt aures hominum ad tam salutaria praecepta, Ambros. de Tobia, 3, 9.

In the wild

obsurdescimus Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 88.p2
obsurduit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.1.11
obsurduerunt Cicero, De Republica 6.19

Where it came from

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