aduro

ăd-ūro, ussi, ustum, 3, v. a., to set fire to, to kindle, to set in a flame, to burn, singe, scorch (cf. accendo), etc.

I.

A.. Lit., of food: hoc adustum est, * Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 71; so Hor. S. 2, 8, 68; 90: splendor quicunque est acer, adurit Saepe oculos, * Lucr. 4, 330:

Dionysius candente carbone sibi adurebat capillum,

Cic. Off. 2, 7, 23; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—So of the Indian sages:

sine gemitu aduruntur,

suffer themselves to be burned, Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 77:

ignes caelestes adussisse complurium vestimenta dicebantur,

Liv. 39, 22.—So in Cels., of the burning or cauterizing of a diseased limb: os eodem ferramento adurendum, 8, 2; cf. id. 5, 26, 21; 33:

flammis aduri Colchicis,

Hor. Epod. 5, 24:

in desertis adustisque sole,

Plin. 19, 1, 4, § 19.—

B.

Transf., to hurt, damage, consume; of locusts:

multa contactu adurentes,

Plin. 11, 29, 35, § 104.— So of wind, to blast, from its effects:

(arbores) aduri fervore aut flatu frigidiore,

Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 216.—And also of cold and frost, to nip, to freeze:

ne frigus adurat,

Verg. G. 1, 92:

nec vernum nascentia frigus adurat poma,

Ov. M. 14, 763:

adusta gelu,

id. F. 4, 918:

rigor nivis multorum adussit pedes,

Curt. 7, 3:

(leonis adipes) sanant adusta nivibus,

Plin. 28, 8, 25, § 89.—

II.

Fig., poet. of the fire (flame) of love, to burn, inflame:

Venus non erubescendis adurit Ignibus,

Hor. C. 1, 27, 14; cf.:

ardores vincet adusta meos,

Ov. H. 12, 180.— Hence, ădustus, a, um, P. a.

A.

Burned by the sun; hence, scorched, made brown, and, in gen., brown, swarthy:

si qui forte adustioris coloris ex recenti via essent,

Liv. 27, 47:

adustus corpora Maurus,

Sil. 8, 269:

lapis adusto colore,

Plin. 2, 58, 59, § 149.—

B.

Subst.: ădusta, ōrum, n., burns upon the flesh, Cels. 5, 27.