leniate

English

Etymology

From Latin lēniō — to soften, to soothe.

Verb

leniate (third-person singular simple present leniates, present participle leniating, simple past and past participle leniated)

1. (obsolete) To soothe.
   • 1642, anonymous author, “The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk, and his two Sons”, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume 4, published 1745, page 32:

     Sometimes an offender is beheaded, sometimes thrown off a rock; […] yet, in these cases, as the Emperor's fury is leniated, they many times escape; but, when the Mutes come in place, all are displaced, against whom their commission is enlarged.

   • 1657, Richard Tomlinson (translator), A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the whole Body of Phyſick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the way to adminiſter them, page 113 (originally published in French as "Dispensatorivm Medicvm " by Jean de Renou, 1609)

     […] ſuch vehehement [sic] vexations and torments in Colicall dolours, which might be leniated by ſeverall Medicaments […]

   • 1792, D[avid] Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem, page 169:

     The conſciouſneſs of ſelf-ſecurity
     Prevails o'er every feeling in the breaſt,
     And leniates all our grief. […]

Anagrams

• ateline, lenaite, lineate, nealite

Italian

Verb

leniate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of lenire

Anagrams

• lineate