Excudo, excûdis, pen. prod. excúdi (& excúsi secundum Carrhisium & Probum) excûsum, excúdere. Virgil. To beate or strike out: to hatche: to finde out with studie: to print.Ceras excudunt apes.Virg.To make ware.Excudere ignem.Virg.To strike fire.Excudere scintiliam.Virg. Idem. Excudere oua dicuntur gallinæ, & eiusmodi animalia. Colum. To hatch egges. Excudere dicta alicuius.Ouid.To reuolue and caste ones wordes in his minde.Excudere artes.Virg.With studie to inuent artes.Excudit mihi. Colum. He wreasted out of me by intreatie. Excudere aliquod opus.Cicer.To make a worke: also to printe it.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-cūdo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to strike, beat or hammer out.I.Lit.: silici scintillam, Verg. A. 1, 174: ignem, Plin. 16, 40, 77, 208.—II.Transf., to hatch out: pullos ex ovis, Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 2; 10; 13: anseres aliena ova non excudunt, i. e.
do not hatch them
, id. ib. 3, 10, 3; 4; 3, 9, 2; Col. 8, 14, 7.—B.To forge, mould: excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Verg. A. 6, 848.—C. In gen., to prepare, make any thing: ceras, Verg. G. 4, 57.—D.Trop., of a writing, to compose: excudam aliquid *(hraklei/deion, Cic. Att. 15, 27, 2; Plin. Ep. 1, 3, 4; Tac. de Or. 9.