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

I rode to Kensington and procured her a lenitive, with which I returned.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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

Catholicon, is little used, or made here, the lenitive Electuary of our Dispensatory may be substituted for it, or that of the Edinburgh Dispensatory, which was calculated particularly for Glysters.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Yet see, Sir, the effect of that lenitive, though mixed with these bitter ingredients; and how this rugged people can express themselves on a measure of concession.

From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark