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Trop, to resist, to be stubborn or refractory: calcitrat, respuit, * Cic. Cael. 15, 36.
Prov.: calcitrare contra stimulum, to kick against the pricks, Amm. 18, 5, 1; Vulg. Act. 9, 5; 26, 14; cf. 1. calx. —* In gen., to strike convulsively with the feet, of one dying, Ov M. 12, 240.