Extundo, extundis, éxtudi, pen. corr. extûsum. penult. prod. extúndere. Plaut.To sinde out with labour and paine: to gette out with paine and difficultie: to attaine by force: to beate out.Vsus extundit artes. Virgilius. Vse or experience after much labour beateth out or inuenteth artes.Labor extundit fasndia. Horatius. Labour driueth away loathsonmesse and maketh to haue an appetite.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-tundo, tŭdi, tūsum, 3, v. a., to beat out, strike out, force out (mostly poet. and post-Aug.; not in Cic. or Caes.). I.Lit.: calcibus frontem extudit, Phaedr. 1, 21, 9; cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 33, 2: frequens tussis sanguinem quoque extundit, Cels. 4, 4, 5.—II.Trop.: priusquam id extudi, cum illi subblandiebar,
squeezed out
,
extorted
, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 64; cf.: ea demum extudit magis convicio quam precibus vel auctoritate, Suet. Vesp. 2: quis nobis extudit hanc artem?
struck out
,
found out
,
devised
, Verg. G. 4, 315: eloquentiam, Gell. 17, 20, 4: vitae mortalis honorem, Verg. G. 4, 328: perseveranti postulatione extuderunt, ut, etc., Val. Max. 5, 2, 10; so with ut, id. 1, 4, 4: alios (discentes) continuatio extundit, in aliis plus impetus facit, hammers out, forms (the figure being taken from a sculptor), Quint. 1, 3, 6: hic exsultantis Salios ... et lapsa ancilia caelo extuderat,
embossed
,
fashioned in relief
, Verg. A. 8, 665: cum labor extuderit fastidia, has driven off (= cum vi excusserit, removerit), Hor. S. 2, 2, 14: unum librum extudit et elucubravit,