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uvesco

to grow

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Where it lives

Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant

ūvesco — Lewis & Short

ūvesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [uveo, uvens], to grow or become moist, wet, damp, dank, or humid (poet.).

I Lit.: suspensae in litore vestes Uvescunt, Lucr. 1, 306; Avien. Arat. 254.—

II Transf., poet., to moisten or refresh one's self, i. e. to drink freely, to tipple: seu quis capit acria fortis Pocula, seu modicis uvescit laetius, * Hor. S. 2, 6, 70.

In the wild

uvescunt Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.306
uvescit Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.6.70

Where it came from

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