solatium
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This was the man's way of looking at the question; the boy's future should be provided for, he should have a fine estate left him by way of solatium.
From The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A solatium is a Debating Society spree, held in December or January; a gaudeamus is a festival of the same kind, only rather more ambitious, celebrated towards the close of the session.
From The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man by Robert F. (Robert Fuller) Murray
This will be a solatium to him for the fact that his brother still lives to disgrace the name.
From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins
The venomous scorn it poured upon those worthless rapscallions afforded him a certain solatium against the discomforts of expatriation by which he was afflicted as a result of their detestable energies.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
The Orange Free State had been kicked outside the British line of empire, with a solatium in money, in the manner that an angry father bids adieu to a ne'er-do-well son.
From The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne
Petau tells us that he wrote verses to solace the evils of old age— —— Petavius æger Cantabat veteris quærens solatia morbi.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
You ought to have brought the matter before us yourselves: at least, now, support him with the necessary "solatia."
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
