concallesco

con-callesco, callui, 3, v. inch. [calleo]; lit., to become hard or callous; hence, trop., *

I.

Of the intellect, to become shrewd, practised (cf. calleo, I.):

callidos eos appello, quorum, tamquam manus opere, sic animus usu concalluit,

Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 25.—

* II.

Of the feelings, to become insensible, obtuse: locus ille animi nostri, stomachus ubi habitabat olim, concalluit, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10.