aggravesco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ag-grăvesco (adg-), ĕre, 3, v. inch., to become heavy.

I Lit.: propinquitate parti, Pac. ap. Non. 486, 5 (Trag. Rel. p. 85 Rib.).—

II Fig., of sickness, to become violent , severe , dangerous : ne Philumenae magis morbus adgravescat, grow worse , be aggravated , Ter. Hec. 337.

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