mulcare

1 mulcare [CL] , to treat roughly, beat up, or sim.; b (partly fig.). cum stolidi proceres, qui mundi regna regebant / martires immerito mulcata carne necarent Aldh. VirgV 1780; ~at, graviter vexat GlC M 320; multata, percussa Ib. M 330; ~atus, percussus Gl. Leid. 4. 28; ~ata, vincta Ib. 35. 303; ~are, pugnis vel virgis cedere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 367; ut pro malis non mulcetur / cum citatus propelletur / ad extremum sinodum Walt. Wimb. Virgo 159.  b et laus almorum mulcatur fraude malorum Aldh. VirgV 1648; c1400 ut gula mulcetur satagit, caro ne dominetur (De Monachis Carnalibus) MLJ XV 138.

2 mulcare [LL] , to soothe, pacify. ~are, mulcere, mitigare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 363.