Velífico, velíficas, pen. cor. velificâre: vel Velíficor, velificâris, velificári, deponens. Pli. To hoise vp sailes and saile foorthe: to passe vy water.Nauta per vrbanas velificabat aquas. Propert. Velificari honori suo, per translationem. Ci. With diligÊce to indeuout to procure honor and cenowne.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vēlĭfĭco, āre (act. collat. form of velificor), to sail, make sail: nauta per urbanas velificabat aquas, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 6: per summa aequora, Plin. 9, 33, 52, 103; 9, 29, 47, 88: erectis capitibus, id. 8, 13, 13, 35.— Pass.: velificatus Athōs,
vēlĭfĭcor, ātus (inf. parag. velificarier, Afr. Com. 267), 1, v. dep. n. [velum-facio], to make sail, spread sail, sail.I.Lit. (rare; not in Cic.): (ratis) Caerula ad infernos velificata lacus, Prop. 2, 28 (3, 25), 40: velificantes triumphantium in modum, Flor. 3, 7, 3; Mel. 3, 7, 2.—II.Trop., with dat., to make sail for, i. e. to exert one's self to effect, procure, or gain a thing (class.): honori suo velificari, Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 27: ne aut velificatus alicui dicaris, aut, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 2: favori civium, Flor. 1, 9, 5.