Verb [edit]. coax â(third-person singular simple present coaxes, present participle coaxing, simple past and past participle coaxed). ( 1 obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease. 2  To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.he was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man. 1  12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift.
Is it true that WWF legend Yokozuna died due to a fear of spiders? How did he die? No. According to the Wikipedia article about him, On October 23, 2000, AnoaÊ»i died from pulmonary edema in his room at the Moat House Hotel in Liverpool, England while on an independent wrestling tour in Europe.
By the time the Boxer Rebellion happened, the Qing was already dead. As one Meiji Japanese diplomat said: The Qing Empire should have died with the Taiping Rebellion, as per the natural cycle of dynastic changes and shifting of the mandate of heaven, but thanks to foreign intervention, the Qing Empire existed as a zombie state for another half century and delaying the inevitable modernization of China.