procudo

prō-cūdo, di, sum, 3, v. a., to fashion or make by hammering, to forge a thing.

A.

Lit. ( poet. ):

in acuta et tenuia posse Mucronum duci fastigia procudendo,

Lucr. 5, 1265:

enses, Hor C. 4, 15, 19: vomeris obtusi dentem,

Verg. G. 1, 261.—

2.

Transf., in gen., to bring forth, produce:

ignem,

Lucr. 2, 1115:

prolem propagando,

id. 5, 856.—

B.

Trop., to form, cultirate (rare but class.): legendo et scribendo vitam procudito, Varr. ap. Non. 156, 28:

non solum acuenda nobis, neque procudenda lingua est, sed, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 30, 121:

ingenium,

Amm. 15, 2, 8.—

2.

Transf., in gen., to forge, contrive, bring forth, produce (ante-class.): haec mihi incus est; procudam ego hinc hodie multos dolos, to forge artifices, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 20:

voluptatem,

Lucr. 3, 1081.