cŏ-hŏnesto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
- 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.