mansuēfacio, fēci, factum, 3, v. a.; pass. mansuēfīo, factus, fieri mansuetus-facio, to make tame, to tame (class.). Lit.: mansuefacimus animalia? indomita nascuntur, Quint. 9, 4, 5: uri assuescere ad homines et mansuefieri, ne parvuli quidem excepti, possunt, grow or become tame, Caes. B. G. 6, 27: arietes feri mansuefacti, Col. 7, 2, 4: tigris mansuefactus, Plin. 8, 17, 25, § 65: grues mansuefactae, id. 10, 23, 30, § 59.

—Transf.: aes attritu domitum et consuetudine nitoris veluti mansuefactum, Plin. 34, 9, 20, § 97.

— Trop., to make gentle, to soften, civilize, pacify: a quibus (nos) mansuefacti et exculti, *Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62: deposita et mansuefacta barbaria, Just. 43, 4, 1: plebem, Liv. 3, 14 fin.: ferum ingenium, Suet. Calig. 11.