tranquillizing

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He wondered whether lithium could have the same tranquillizing effect on his patients.

From Nature • Aug. 25, 2019

Then, like a tranquillizing moon, would her image, as she was more in his thoughts than in his sight, lay itself upon his dreaming soul, and so much was enough.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

So far from tranquillizing the Bohemian people, this led to an insurrection of the Hussites in that country, the first of a series of religious wars that inaugurated the break-up of Latin Christendom.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Ho, ho," said the physician, "does it stand thus with you?—Nay, nay, instead of poison, rather the tranquillizing and sedative remedy of pleasant society, and moderate dissipation.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

The tranquillizing, satisfying power of art is due to the revelation which art accomplishes of a spiritual harmony which transcends the seeming chaos of instant experience.

From The Enjoyment of Art by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge