praesudo

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

prae-sūdo, āre, v. n., to sweat before (poet.).

I Lit.: dum matutinis praesudat solibus aër, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 120.— —

II Trop., to exert one's self beforehand , Stat. Th. 6, 4.