asswage

English

Verb

asswage (third-person singular simple present asswages, present participle asswaging, simple past and past participle asswaged)

1. Obsolete spelling of assuage.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
     , Genesis 8:1

     And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
     , Job 16:5-6

     5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

     6. Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

   • 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon Ireland, p. 11/12:

     Now although it concerns mee to propagate such a belief, as a fit Anodyne to asswage the many Spleens swelling against mee; yet I being ashamed to be wholly without some excuse for so conspicuous an Error, (as my diversion upon the Survey, and my other consequent undertakings was) I must let the world think otherwise, as part of that excuse which I must yet make more compleat, by acquainting you with some other reasons of that Action,.....

References

• “asswage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “asswage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Verb

asswage

1. Alternative form of aswagen