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.