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excoquere [CL] 1 to cook (by baking or boiling). b to overcook, burn, dry out. c to harden by boiling (leather); v. et. coquere 2b. d to scald, cauterize (wound). e (p. ppl., of eye) inflamed. f digested. potens est Deus absque corporis igne panes vestros ~ere Ord. Vit. VI 9 p. 73; [piscem] in caldarium ‥ posuit et excoxit R. Cold. Godr. 151; ~o, A. to sethe WW.  b cum carnes in aqua illa diu coquerentur nec ~i possent Gir. TH II 29; quandoque est ‥ humiditas aquosa tantum, que dum transducitur ad superiora arboris, turn calore naturali tum exteriori excocta transducitur tota in carnem sine testa ‥ sicut videmus in ficubus Quaest. Salern. B 144; ~o, A. to ‥ brenne WW.  c ad vitalium ‥ custodiam multiplois linea varie consuta lorice superponitur ‥ et subinduitur aut corium excoctum R. Niger Mil. I 19.  d 1375 ne per sanguinis effusionem scandalizarentur, vulnera ipsius Willelmi cum aqua cocta ~erunt SelCKB VI 174.  e quare ‥ habes oculos rubeos et excoctos? Anselm Misc. 326.  f digesti, ‥ excocti Gl. Leid. 2. 51. 2 to smelt, refine (metal). b (fig.) to purify. c (fig.) to refine away (impurity). metalla in igne excocta ad ornatum corone sumuntur Hon. GA 588C.  b templum Domini ‥ ingreditur ‥ gloria resurrectionis ab omni labe mortalitatis excoctus Bede Hom. I 11. 56; sese ut aurum in fornace ab omni scoria vitiorum omnimodis ~ere satagunt Ord. Vit. V 14 p. 418; [Ædeluuoldus] excoctus digne, dum purificatur in igne, / purior extractus, resplenduit illius actus (Vers.) Lib. Eli. II 10 p. 398.  c Bede HE IV 9 p. 222 (v. 1 caminus 3c); sicut vas excocta rubigine mundum ‥ in thesaurum reconditur Ord. Vit. VIII 17 p. 370; ardore devotionis omnem in se peccati rubiginem ~erunt P. Blois Serm. 693A; discipuli ‥ preneglectam scoriam [sc. sciencie] ~erunt donec fieret aurum electum R. Bury Phil. 10. 158. 3 to temper (iron); b (fig.); c (w. ref. to illness); d (p. ppl.) tried, vexed. cum faber projicit aquam super ferrum ‥ unde fortius ferrum ~itur et remollitur Quaest. Salern. B 210.  b a1077 gloria ‥ Deo qui ‥ vos in igne tribulationis collocaret quatinus ‥ spem vestram usque ad debitum robur ~eret Anselm (Ep. 78) III 201; Malchum tribulatio dura / excoquit R. Cant. Malch. I 377; Danais Fortuna caminis / excoxit non seva Friges, majoraque bellis / erudiit perferre viros Hanv. I 104 p. 244.  c abbas ‥ longa excoctus aegritudine Hist. Abb. Jarrow 17; Eadberhtus ‥ / ‥ / febribus excoquitur Bede CuthbV 838; diuturni prius cruciatus excocta purgatorio tandem ‥ curata est Mir. Fridesw. 96; s1257 episcopus Cestrensis diuturna infirmitate ‥ excoctus cesserat episcopatui M. Par. Maj. V 644.  d excoctum ‥ pectus Frith. 80 (cf. ib. 122: ardent excoctis fibrarum omenta laternis).

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