[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To administer a caudle to.
1607. Shaks., Timon, IV. iii. 226. Will the cold brooke Caudied with Ice, cawdle thy Morning taste.
1672. Davenant, Love & Honour (1673), 256. I shall be cawdled like a Haberdashers Wife, That lies in of her first Child.
1832. Blackw. Mag., XXXII. 458. [They] have caudled and beflannelled themselves.
2. To mix, as in a caudle.
1790. H. Boyd, in Poet. Register (1808), 133. Blessings unsophisticate and pure; Not caudled for our taste with dregs terrene.
1845. Carlyle, Cromwell (1871), V. 44. His Highness has already inextricably caudled the two together.
3. To talk over, lecture (a husband). [A nonce-use from ‘Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures.’]
1845. Tait’s Mag., XII. 482. The mother is easily convinced … she must Caudle her husband into the same conviction.
