titillare

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Nam austeritas canonum, quae viguit ea tempestate, maiorem in modum displicet huic sectae plausibili, quae tricliniis aptior, quam templis, voluptarias aures titillare et pulvillos omni cubito [50] solet assuere.

Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
So Naples is far more Hellenic in dialect, lore, song and gesture than these regions, which are still rich in pure latinisms of speech, such as surgere (to arise); scitare (excitare -- to arouse); è (est -- yes); fetare (foetare); trasete (transitus -- passage of quails); titillare (to tickle); craje (cras -- to-morrow); pastena (a plantation of young vines; Ulpian has "pastinum instituere").

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910