cohonesto

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

cŏ-hŏnesto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to honor in common or abundantly , do honor to , to honor , grace (rare, but in good prose): exsequias, Cic. Quint. 15, 50: funus laudatione pro rostris ceterisque solennibus, Tac. A. 3, 76: statuas, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 69, § 168: aliquam, id. Fam. 13, 11, 3: MEMORIAM PVELLAE, Inscr. Orell. 5037: victoriam, Liv. 38, 47, 3: aliquid virtute, id. 25, 16, 17: patrem deorum, Arn. 5, 172: res turpes, to call by honorable names , id. 5, 187.—

II Meton., to palliate : defluvia capitis, to prevent or cure the falling off of the hair (by which the head is disfigured), Plin. 22, 13, 15, § 34.

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