verb
fŏcillo
Meaning
- to revive
fŏcillo (fŏcĭlo), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., and fŏcillor, ātus, 1, v. dep. focus,
I. to revive or refresh by warmth, to resuscitate one who is faint or nearly dead:
ipse paucis diebus aegre focilatus decessit, Plin. Ep. 3, 14, 4; 3, 16, 12.—II. Trop., to cherish (very rare):
pudet me sic tecum loqui et tam levibus remediis te focillare, Sen. Ep. 13 fin.: societatem, Suet. Aug. 17.—In the deponent form: suum quisque diversi commodum focillantur, foster, cherish, Varr. ap. Non. 481, 15.