Excoquo, éxcoquis, penul. corr. excoxi, excoctum, excóquere. Tere. To boile a thing vntil it be drie: to boile throughly: to boile away.Ignis excoquit vitium metalli.Ouid.Fire fineth mettal: or consumeth and purgeth, &c.Sol terram excoquit. Lucr. The sunne drieth the grounde.Excoquere malum alicui.Plaut.To deuise or inuent a mischiefe for one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-cŏquo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to boil out, melt out, dry up.I.Lit.: usque coquito, dum dimidium excoquas, i. e.
you boil away
, Cato, R. R. 107, 2: mustum ad dimidium, Col. 12, 19, 1: testudinem vino,
to boil thoroughly
, Plin. 32, 4, 14, 38: glebas melle, id. 37, 12, 74, 194: ferrum (ignis), i. e.
to harden
, Ov. M. 14, 712: harenas admixto nitro in vitrum, Tac. H. 5, 7: lapide cremato in caminis donec excoquatur in rubricam, Plin. 34, 13, 37, 135: ignis vitium metallis excoquit, Ov. F. 4, 786: omne per ignes vitium, Verg. G. 1, 88; hence, excoctum argentum, i. e.
purified
, Gell. 6, 5, 9; cf.: excoxi te, non quasi argentum, Vulg. Isa. 48, 10: imagines excoctae flammis,
melted down
, Plin. Pan. 52, 5: excoctum parum habet suci, Varr. L. L. 5, 109 Müll.: terram sol excoquit et facit are,
dries up
, Lucr. 6, 962; cf.: tam excoctam (ancillam) reddam atque atram quam carbo est, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 63.—With an abstr. object: cruditatem Laconicis, qs. to boil out, i. e. to drive out by steam-baths, Col. 1 praef.16: excocta maturitas hordei, i. e.
