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- noun Plural form of
lenitive .
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Examples
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If costiveness offend in this, or any other of the three species, it is to be corrected with suppositories, clysters or lenitives, powder of senna, condite prunes, &c.
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His physicians nevertheless helped him very well, and with store of lenitives and diuretic drugs made him piss away his pain.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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His physicians nevertheless helped him very well, and with store of lenitives and diuretic drugs made him piss away his pain.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In this spring of humours, lenitives for our own spirits may perhaps be as necessary as purges for others 'brains.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Every wound is not healed by the same plaster; assuage inflammations by lenitives.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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But on the other hand, if we show ourselves for strong measures without lenitives, I fear we shall entirely lose the confidence of Ireland.
Lady John Russell Ed 1910
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We cannot indeed altogether omit taking precautions now and then against the spreading of the malady; -- but for himself, though we shall watch the progress of his symptoms as a matter of professional curiosity and instruction, we really think it right not to harass him any longer with nauseous remedies, -- but rather to throw in cordials and lenitives, and wait in patience for the natural termination of the disorder.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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And no wonder, when from the herbs that grow there you can make so many of the lenitives of life -- from elecampane
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 Various 1898
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Then said she: 'It is indeed as thou sayest, for we have not yet come to the curing of thy sickness; as yet these are but lenitives conducing to the treatment of a malady hitherto obstinate.
The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1896
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_Dissolve frigus, large super foco ligna reponens_, is a rule for the young, whose woodpile is yet abundant for such cheerful lenitives.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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