lenitive

Example Sentences

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In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Food and a lenitive were left within their reach, and when able they followed their kinsmen; the alternative is the terrible risk of a wandering life.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John

After that, it will be convenient to prepare the body by some Julep or Apozeme, or to give some lenitive medicine to free the first region of the body from excrements.

From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by Rutherford, James

Had he at the same time given me a tea-spoon, it would not have been so improper; for the poison might have been made up as a lenitive electuary.

From The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various

Keep the body open by two evacuations daily, if possible without medicine, if not take the size of a nutmeg of lenitive electuary occasionally, or five grains of rhubarb every night.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus