inhaeresco

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

ĭnhaeresco, haesi, haesum, 3, v. inch. n. [inhaereo], to stick fast, cleave, adhere to.

I Lit.: in sordibus aurium, tamquam in visco, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: ne quid emineret ubi ignis hostium inhaeresceret, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: sucus villis, Plin. 12, 17, 37, § 74. —

II Trop.: poëtae inhaerescunt penitus in mentibus, Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3.

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