(verb) : com-mĭnor, ātus, 1
* 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: mots alicul, App. M. 6, p. 184, 12: novercae nex,id. ib. 10, p. 241, 16.

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