commulceo

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

com-mulcĕo, ēre, v. a. (very rare, and mostly post-class.), to caress, coax, or soothe much.

I Prop.: puerum trepidantem, Ap. Met. 9, 27, 16.—

II Trop., to soothe , please , cajole : narium sensus, Arn. 7, p. 233: aures, id. 1, p. 35: sensus judicum honorificis sententiis, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 13.