recalfacio

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

rĕ-calfacĭo (rĕcălĕfacĭo), fēci, 3, v. a.,

I to make warm ( again ), to warm (poet. and in post-class. prose): calidumque priori Caede recalfecit consorti sanguine telum, Ov. M. 8, 443; id. F. 4, 698; id. A. A. 2, 214.— Pass. : rursus recalfiunt, Scrib. Comp. 271; Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 10, 63.—Full form: statim recalefacto corpore, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 10.—

II Trop.: tepidam recalface mentem, Ov. A. A. 2, 445.

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