Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.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.