com-mĭnor, ātus, 1, v. dep.,
to threaten one with something , esp., in milit. lang., to threaten with an attack , to menace (in prose most freq. in the histt.; not in Cic.); constr. usu. alicui aliquid; rarely alicui aliquā re , aliquem , or absol. : comminando magis quam inferendo pugnam, Liv. 10, 39, 6: impetum, Auct. B. Afr. 71: obsidionem, Liv. 31, 26, 6; 42, 7, 5: necem alicui, Suet. Caes. 14: inter se, Liv. 44, 9, 7: alicui cuspide, Suet. Caes. 62: accusationem, Dig. 5, 2, 7.— With acc. pers. , Dig. 1, 16, 9, § 3; 1, 12, 1, § 10 al.— Absol. : vox comminantis audita est, Suet. Calig. 22 fin. —Part.: commĭ-nātus , a, um, in pass. signif., threatened : mors alicui, Ap. Met. 6, 26, 18; novercae nex, id. ib. 10, 6, 9.