Exacuo, exácuis, exácui, pe. cor. exacûtum, pe. pr. exacúere. Pli. To whet: to sharpÊ: to make a sharp edge or point to a thing: to stirre: to make angry or vere.Animos in bella versibus exacuere. Horat. To moue & stirte vp mens courages to marre.Exacuere corticem. Var. To make the barke sharpe.Exacuere dentes etiam dicitur sus.Virg.To whet the teeth.Mucronem in aliquos exacuere.Cic.Exacuunt alij vallos furcásque bicornes. Vir. Other sharpen their stakes and forkes. Acertum exacuere. Plin. To make vinegar sharpe.Aciem oculorum exacuere.Cic.To quicken the sight.Nasturtìum exacuit animum. Plin. Doth the mind.Sapor exacuit palatum.Ouid.The doth quicken or prouoke appetite.Exacuunt visum scarabei virides. Plin. Quicken the sight. Exacuere aliquem.Cic.To moue: to stirre: to quicken.Cahortari & exacuere aliquem.Cic.To exhort and vp.Inuicern se mutuis exhortationibus exacuere. Plin. iu. With mutual exhortations to stirre vp & incourage one anotherStimulis exacuere aliquem. Claud. To pricke forde: to stirre or moue to a thing.Exacuere religionem.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-ăcŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a., to make very sharp, to sharpen, make pointed (class.). I.Lit.: ferramenta cote, Plin. 28, 4, 12, 47; 34, 14, 41, 146: ridicas, Col. 11, 2, 12: vallos furcasque bicornes, Verg. G. 1, 264: spicula, id. ib. 4, 74: dentes, id. ib. 3, 255: metas in angustissimas vertices, Col. 2, 18, 2: cornua in leve fastigium, Plin. 11, 37, 45, 124 et saep.—B.Transf., of taste: aceto exacuendo,
for making pungent
, Plin. 19, 5, 30, 93; of the sight: aciem oculorum, id. 24, 11, 59, 99; cf. visum, id. 29, 6, 38, 132.—II.Trop.A. In gen.: nisi mucronem aliquem tribunitium exacuisset in nos, Cic. Leg. 3, 9, 21: (cum animus) exacuerit illam ut oculorum sic ingenii aciem ad bona diligenda, id. ib. 1, 23, 60; cf. animum, Plin. 20, 13, 50, 127: morbos, i. e. to aggravate, Col. poët. 10, 392.— B. In partic., to sharpen or quicken mentally, to incite, encourage, stimulate, inflame: velim cohortere et exacuas Cluatium, Cic. Att. 12, 36 fin.: aliquem (opp. deterrere), id. de Or. 1, 29: aliquem irā, Nep. Phoc. 4: se ad amorem immortalitatis, Plin. Ep. 3, 7 fin.: animos in bella, Hor. A P. 403: mentem varia ad conamina, Sil. 7, 142.—Poet.: palatum (sapor), Ov. Pont. 1, 10, 13.