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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
LENITIVE
a.[L. lenio, to soften. ] Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
LENITIVE
n. 1. A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain; that which softens or mitigates.
2. A palliative; that which abates passion.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LENITIVE
Len "i *tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. lénitif. See Lenient. ]
Defn: Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
LENITIVE
Len "i *tive, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lénitif. ]
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. 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.
LENITIVENESS
LENITIVENESS Len "i *tive *ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being lenitive.
New American Oxford Dictionary
lenitive
len i tive |ˈlenətiv ˈlɛnədɪv |Medicine, archaic ▶adjective (of a medicine ) laxative. ▶noun a medicine of this type. ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin lenitivus, from lenit- ‘softened, ’ from the verb lenire.
Oxford Dictionary
lenitive
lenitive |ˈlɛnɪtɪv |Medicine, archaic ▶adjective (of a medicine ) laxative. ▶noun a laxative. ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin lenitivus, from lenit- ‘softened ’, from the verb lenire.
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