confervesco

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

confervesco, ferbui (cf. ferveo, and Prisc. p. 866 P.), 3, v. inch. n. [conferveo], to begin to boil, to become heated, grow hot (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I In gen.

A Prop.: aër conclusus versando confervescit, Vitr. 5, 3; 2, 6, 4: granum, si tegulis subjaceat, confervescere, Plin. 18, 30, 73, § 302 al.—

B Trop.: mea cum conferbuit ira, * Hor. S. 1, 2, 71.—

II In medic. lang., of broken limbs, to heal, grow together : si quando ossa non conferbuerunt, Cels. 8, 10, 7; cf. id. 8, 10, 1; 8, 8, 7.

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