The corpus record — Latin

obticesco

to become

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

obtĭcesco — Lewis & Short

obtĭcesco (opt-), tĭcŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [obticeo], to become or be struck silent; in perf., to be silent (syn. obmutesco): obticuit obticescit, Not. Tir. p. 90: quid, amabo, opticuisti? Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 28: quid nunc obticuisti? Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 2 (dub.; Umpfenb. and Fleck. obstipuisti): repente obticuit, Just. 32, 2, 3: nec prius obticuit quam, etc., Ov. M. 14, 523: chorus, Hor. A. P. 284; Mart. 10, 17, 4.—With acc.: cetera obticuit, Lact. Ira Dei, 4, 13.

In the wild

obticuit Claudian, de bello Gildonico 1.128
obticuerit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 8.9
obticuit Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 284
obticuisse Martial, Epigrammata 10.18.4
obticuisti Terence, Heautontimorumenos 5.1
obticuit Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 2.P1

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Where it came from

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