Gratificor, pen. con gratificâris, gratificari. Cice. To gratisie or do a thing thankefull: to do a good turne: to doe a pleasure to: to conferre a benefite.Honeslè gratificari alicui.Cic.Gratificatur mihi gestu accusator, inscientem Cn. Pomponium secisse siguisicat. Cic.Curribi hoc non gratisicer, nescio. Cicero. I know no cause why I should not gratifie you in this.Deus gratisicator hominibus. Cice. Sheweth benesites and pleasures to men.Déque eo quod ipsis superat, alijs gratificari volunt.Cicer.They wil make other their friends with giuing parte of that they do abound in.Gratisicandi sacultas. Cicero. Abilitie to doe pleasure to other.Gratificari libertatem suam alicuius potentiæ.Sal.To giue his libertie and become bounde to aduaunce an other to higher power.Gratificari gratiam.Salust.To gratifie.Liberalis gratificandi voluntas.Cic.
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grātĭfĭcor, ātus (act. collat. form gratificat, Cassiod. Var. 7, 6 init.: gratificavit, Vulg. Eph. 1, 6), 1, v. dep. n. and a. [gratus+ facio], to do a favor to a person, to oblige, gratify; also to do a thing as a favor, to make a present of, surrender, sacrifice a thing (class.; cf.: condono, largior): gratificatur mihi gestu accusator: inscientem Cn. Pompeium fecisse significat, Cic. Balb. 6, 14; cf.: quod Pompeio se gratificari putant, id. Fam. 1, 1, 4; Tac. A. 4, 19: ut sit ipsa libertas, in quo populo potestas honeste bonis gratificandi datur, Cic. Leg. 3, 18, 39; cf. id. Off. 2, 15, 52: de eo quod ipsis superat, aliis gratificari volunt, id. Fin. 5, 15, 42: deus nihil cuiquam tribuens, nihil gratificans omnino, id. N. D. 1, 44, 123; cf. id. Off. 1, 14, 42: cur tibi hoc non gratificer, nescio, id. Fam. 1, 10: ut praepararent suorum animos, ne quid pars altera gratificari pro Romanis posset,
to prove complaisant to
, Liv. 21, 9 fin. dub. (Weissenb. reads gratificari populo Romano; perh. the words pro Romanis are spurious): audax, impurus, populo gratificans et aliena et sua, Cic. Rep. 1, 44; cf. Plin. 34, 6, 11, 25: potentiae paucorum decus atque libertatem suam gratificari, Sall. J. 3, 4; cf.: homo nimis in gratificando jure liber, L. Sisenna, Cic. Cornel. Fragm. p. 450 Orell.: ut, quod populi sit, populus jubeat potius quam patres gratificentur, Liv. 10, 24, 15.