solatium

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Ballad: Solatium Comes the broken flower - Comes the cheated maid - Though the tempest lower, Rain and cloud will fade!

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Just as plants of higher organization choose their soils, some growing in the water and some on land, so the Peronospora infestans chooses its host plant; and its soil is this species, the Solatium tuberosum.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various

He was a Dominican friar, and his treatise, Solatium Ludi Scacchorum, scilicet, Libellus de Moribus Hominum et Officiis Nobilium, was written before the year 1200.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

Solatium, sō-lā′shi-um, n. any compensation, a sum legally awarded, over and above actual damages, by way of compensation for wounded feelings.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various