The corpus record — Latin

occallesco

to get a thick skin; to grow

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Where it lives

Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

occallesco — Lewis & Short

occallesco (obc-), lui, 3,

I v. inch. n. [ob-calleo], to get a thick skin; to grow or become callous.

I Lit.: latera occallescunt plagis, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 13; Cels. 4, 24. —Poet., of one metamorphosed into a swine: os sensi occallescere rostro, Ov. M. 14, 282.—

II Trop., to become callous, hardened, insensible: jam prorsus occallui, Cic. Att. 2, 18, 4: longā patientiā occallui, Plin. Ep. 2, 15, 2: sic mores occalluere, Col. 8, 16, 6.

In the wild

Occallescit Celsus, De Medicina 6.18.p5
occallui Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.15.2
occalluere Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.16.6
occallescere Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.282
occallui Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.18.4
occalluere Plautus, Asinaria 2.4

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