I.a basking in the sun, a sunning (very rare): “Unam mehercule tecum apricationem in illo lucrativo tuo sole malim quam etc.,” Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1: “ubi potest illa aetas (senectus) calescere apricatione melius?” id. Sen. 16, 57 (perh. not elsewhere in Cic.); Col. 8, 8, 4.
ā^prīcātĭo , ōnis, f. apricor,