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* excaecātor, ōris, m. [excaeco], one who blinds, Aug. Serm. 43 ex Homil. 50.

ex-caeco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to blind, make blind (rare).

  1. I. Lit.: num ergo is excaecat nos aut orbat sensibus? etc., * Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 74; Plin. 20, 18, 76, § 200; Flor. 2, 20, 5.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. 1. To deprive a plant of the eyes or buds, Col. 11, 3, 45; Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 175.
      2. 2. To stop up a river, a channel, etc., Ov. M. 15, 272; id. Pont. 4, 2, 17; Cels. 7, 7 fin.
      3. * 3. To darken or dull a bright color: fulgor (argenti) excaecatus, Plin. 33, 9, 46, § 131.
  2. II. Trop.: oculos animosque (fama), Petr. 141, 5: formam, i. e. to render uncomely, to disfigure, id. 128, 3: nec accipies munera quae excaecant prudentes, Vulg. Exod. 23, 8.

ex-calcĕo (-calcĭo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (the deponent form, v. below), to take off the shoes.

  1. I. In gen.: petiit, ut sibi pedes praeberet excalciandos, Suet. Vit. 2.
    More freq. with a personal object and in the part. perf.: excalciatus cursitare, unshod, barefoot, Suet. Vesp. 8; Mart. 12, 88; cf. mid. in the verb. finit.: neque umquam aut nocte aut die excalcearetur aut discingeretur, Vell. 2, 41 fin.; and as a verb. dep.: ut nemo se excalceatur, Varr. ap. Non. 478, 16.
  2. II. In partic., of tragedians, to relieve of the cothurni, Sen. Ep. 76, 23.
    Hence, excalceāti, ōrum, m., pantomimists (opp. to the tragic actors, who wore cothurni, and the comic, who wore socci), Sen. Ep. 8, 7.

excaldātĭo, ōnis, f. [excaldo], a washing or bathing in warm water (late Lat.), Capitol. Albin. 5 al.

ex-caldo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [caldus], to wash or bathe in warm water (late Lat.), Marc. Empir. 26; Apic. 4, 2 al.

ex-călesco, ĕre, v. inch. n., to become warm, Theod. Prisc. 4, 1 med.

ex-calfăcĭo, no perf., factum, 3, v. a., to warm, to heat (post-Aug.; esp. freq. in Pliny the Elder): excalfacit, Plin. 21, 20, 82, § 139; 21, 21, 89, § 155: excalfieri, id. 24, 7, 28, § 42; Scrib. Comp. 158: lacus sole excalfactus, Plin. 37, 2, 11, § 37; 37, 10, 54, § 148: ad excalfaciendos nervos, id. 21, 22, 93, § 163.

* excalfactĭo, ōnis, f. [excalfacio], a warming, heating, Plin. 31, 9, 45, § 105.

excalfactōrĭus, a, um, adj. [excalfacio], warming, heating (a Plinian word), Plin. 21, 18, 72, § 120; 24, 11, 64, § 105; 25, 13, 95, § 152.

excalfīo, pass. of excalfacio, q. v.

ex-candĕfăcĭo, fēci, 3, v. a., to heat, inflame (perh. only in the foll. passages), trop.: excande me fecerunt cupiditate (tmesis), Varr. R. R. 3, 4, 1: annonam macelli, i. e. to enhance, raise, id. ib. 3, 2, 16; cf. exardesco and incendo.

ex-candĕo, ēre, 2, v. a. and n.

  1. I. Act., to make bright, whiten: cutem, Schol. Juv. 2, 107.
  2. II. Neut., to gleam, glisten, be bright: lapides, Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 3, 22.

excandescentĭa, ae, f. [excandesco], nascent anger, passionateness, irascibility, Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 21; cf. App. Dogm. Plat. 1 fin.

excandesco, dŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to grow hot, to take fire, kindle, to glow (class.).

  1. I. Lit.: cum bitumen et sulphur additum est, excandescet, Cato R. R. 95; Col. 7, 5, 16.
  2. II. Trop., to glow, to burn, esp. with anger: haec nullam habent vim, nisi irā excanduit fortitudo, * Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: id postquam resciit, excanduit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 2; cf. Petr. 53, 8; 57, 1; Suet. Claud. 40; id. Ner. 40: in aliquem, id. Vesp. 14; cf.: in exteros, Col. 7, 12, 5: in ultionem, Flor. 2, 18, 8: excandescet in illos aqua maris, Vulg. Sap. 5, 23.

excantātor, ōris, m. [excanto], a charmer, one who removes by enchantment: venatorum morsuum, Hier. in Joel Prol.

ex-canto, āvi, ātum (excantassit = excantaverit, Tab. XII. ap. Sen. Q. N. 4, 7, 2), 1, v. a., to charm out or forth, to bring out by enchantment (not in Cic. or Caes.), Varr. ap. Non. 102, 11; Lucil. and Plaut. ib.; * Prop. 3, 3, 49 (4, 2, 49 M.); * Hor. Epod. 5, 45; Luc. 6, 686; 9, 931: QVI FRVGES EXCANTASSIT, i. e. had removed them by enchantment into another field, Tab. XII. ap. Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 17; cf. Sen. Q. N. 4, 7, 2; Serv. Verg. E. 8, 99; Aug. C. D. 8, 19.

ex-carnĭfĭco, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to cut or tear any one to pieces (a rare word).

  1. I. Lit.: aliquem, Cic. N. D. 3, 33 fin.; Suet. Vit. 17; Sen. Ep. 24.
  2. II. Trop., to torment, torture: aliquem, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 9: excarnificatus animus, Sen. de Ira, 3, 4: comitem, Amm. 14, 5, 1; 14, 9, 6.

ex-castrātus, a, um, Part. [castro], emasculated.

  1. I. Lit., Gell. 9, 9, 10.
  2. II. Transf., shelled, husked: sinapi, Scrib. Comp. 9.

ex-caudĭco (-cōdico), āre, v. a. [caudex), to weed out, root up = exstirpare.

  1. I. Prop., Lex ap. Front. Aquaed. 129.
    1. B. Transf., to dig round, i. q. ablaqueare: ablaqueandae sunt vites, quod Itali excodicare appellant, Pall. Jan. 1.
  2. II. Trop., to extirpate, root out: silvam libidinum eradicare et excaudicare, Tert. Pudic. 16.

* excăvātĭo, ōnis, f. [excavo], a hollowing out: lapidis, Sen. Q. N. 4, 3, 3.

ex-căvo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to hollow out.

  1. I. Lit.: trullam, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 27 fin.: cavernam sibi rostro, Plin. 9, 27, 43, § 82: ripas, id. 10, 33, 49, § 95: terram, id. 33 prooem.: lapides excavant aquae, Vulg. Job, 14, 19.
  2. II. Transf., in mal. part., Auct. Priap. 51, 4.