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lenitive
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synonyms: aperient, black draught, anodyne, emollient ???
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Definition:1. (Med.) (a) A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants.(b) A mild purgative; a laxative.2. That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.”
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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There is one sweet Lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
Sterne.
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He called for a glass of amontillado, and suddenly, beside this pale, dry wine, the lenitive, sweetish stories of the English author were routed, to be replaced by the pitiless revulsives and the grievous irritants of Edgar Allen Poe; the cold nightmares of The Cask of Amontillado, of the man immured in a vault, assailed him; the ordinary placid faces of American and English drinkers who occupied the room, appeared to him to reflect involuntary frightful thoughts, to be harbouring instinctive, odious plots.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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