lenitiveadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlɛnᵻtɪv/, U.S.

/ˈlɛnədɪv/

Forms: Also 1600s lenative, lenetive; also corruptly lenety, lenity, linitive.

Etymology: < medieval Latin lēnītīvus (compare French lénitif ), < Latin lēnīre to soften, assuage, soothe. In sense A. 2, taken as if < lenity n. + -ive suffix.

A. adj.

1. Of medicines and medical appliances: Tending to allay or soften; mitigating, soothing; gently laxative; esp. in lenitive electuary.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [adjective] > soothing

sedativec1425

lenitive1543

lenifying1617

demulcing1619

lenient1652

levative1657

levigating1710

demulcent1732

temperating1753

demulcetive1756

soothing1899

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 100^v/2 Lenitiue clysters, & suppositories.

1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 10, in 2nd Pt. Herball Cassia fistula or suche lykewise lenitiue or gentell purger.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xcii. 179 This [glister] is lenitiue and a great easer of paine.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. ii. 312 Where nature is defectiue, art must supply, by those lenitiue electuaries.

a1625 T. Lodge Poore Mans Talentt (1881) 43 A Clister lenety made of the decoction of malloweis [etc.].

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 436 As if she meant to cure a gangren'd arm with a lenitive plaister.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 52 Lenitive Purgers should be made use of.

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 246 Apples are likewise pectoral, cooling, and lenitive.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 221 The pulp of cassia alone, or in the compound of lenitive electuary.

†2. Of persons, their dispositions, etc.: Displaying leniency, gentle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of strictness > [adjective] > lenient

mildeOE

eði modesa1325

easyc1325

sweet1607

lenitive1620

lenient1787

go-easy1901

1620 Swetnam Arraign'd (1880) 78 Old Iago is a froward Lord, Honest but lenatiue.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1848 Taking some advantage of the lenative and tractable disposition of the Emperour.

a1652 R. Brome Love-sick Court i. i. 92 in Five New Playes (1659) He has been Too long too lenetive.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. Ded. sig. Ggg3 Such Writers..use the most lenitive language in expressing distastfull matter.

B. n.

1. A lenitive medicine or appliance. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > balsam

balm1393

balsamumc1540

lenitive1563

balsamo1594

balsam1597

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > soothing medicine

lenitive1563

acopon1566

mitigator1586

diminutive1596

assuagement1599

mitigatory1656

levative1657

lenient1672

balsamic1713

demulcent1732

assuasive1829

mitigant1838

obtundent1842

torpent1882

chill pill1981

1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. ii. ii. f. 14 Suppositorie, clyster, or ientle lenytiue.

1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) i. pr. vi. 18 I will assay a while therfore with lenitiues, & meane fomentations.

1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. Concl. sig. Hiij Thy linative applide, did ease my paine.

1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iv. 87 The gangren'd sores of their soules were not to be cured by Lenities.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 29 But Lenitives fomented the Disease.

1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. v. 137 It is so gentle a Lenitive, that three Times the Quantity they usually give will hardly move any Horse.

1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 74 The gentle lenitives of virtue..might have proved healing ingredients to so deep..a wound.

1788 New London Mag. 429 He demanded a lenitive which would put fire into the wound.

1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 252 Nature..caused to grow out of the earth her sassafras for a sweet lenitive.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xv. 240 Festering wounds had more need of corrosives than lenitives.

2. Anything that softens or soothes; a palliative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > act, means, or source of consolation or relief > one who or that which consoles or relieves

comfortera1382

discharger?1537

consolatora1540

assuager1547

cheerer?1567

easera1592

tame-grief1606

lightener?1611

solacer1611

lenitive1614

swager1617

allayer1631

unbender1637

comfortable1650

alleviator1725

consoler1740

soother1780

reassurer1882

a shoulder to cry on1935

1614 A. Jackson (title) Sorrow's Lenitive.

1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 86 Soule-solacing Lenitiffs of the Gospell.

1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 179 He hath under his greatest Misery the Lenitive of Hope.

1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 161 If such an enormous Crime can admit of any Lenitive.

1743 H. Fielding Journey from this World i. xxi, in Misc. II. 183 It wants the Lenitive which palliates and softens every other Calamity.

1781 H. L. Thrale Let. Nov. in F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 514 This consanguineous Fondness..I consider..one of the Lenitives of Life.

1825 R. Hall Wks. (1833) I. 376 Friendship..the lenitive of our Sorrows and the multiplier of our joys.

1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 412 Against the artificial he used the artificial as a lenitive.

1891 J. H. Shorthouse Blanche Lady Falaise 205 Mundane prosperity, which is a wonderful lenitive to some natures.

Derivatives

ˈlenitively adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of strictness > [adverb] > leniently

remissively1537

lenitivelya1632

leniently1845

a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) i. sig. B2 Yet should these waste you but lenatively.

1726 W. Penn Life in Wks. I. 37 All Laws are to be considered Strictly and Literally, or more Explanatorily and Lenitively.

ˈlenitiveness n.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Lenitiveness, softening or assuaging Quality.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lenitive
释义	lenitiveadj.n. Brit. /ˈlɛnᵻtɪv/, U.S. /ˈlɛnədɪv/ Forms: Also 1600s lenative, lenetive; also corruptly lenety, lenity, linitive. Etymology: < medieval Latin lēnītīvus (compare French lénitif ), < Latin lēnīre to soften, assuage, soothe. In sense A. 2, taken as if < lenity n. + -ive suffix. A. adj. 1. Of medicines and medical appliances: Tending to allay or soften; mitigating, soothing; gently laxative; esp. in lenitive electuary. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [adjective] > soothing sedativec1425 lenitive1543 lenifying1617 demulcing1619 lenient1652 levative1657 levigating1710 demulcent1732 temperating1753 demulcetive1756 soothing1899 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 100^v/2 Lenitiue clysters, & suppositories. 1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 10, in 2nd Pt. Herball Cassia fistula or suche lykewise lenitiue or gentell purger. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xcii. 179 This [glister] is lenitiue and a great easer of paine. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. ii. 312 Where nature is defectiue, art must supply, by those lenitiue electuaries. a1625 T. Lodge Poore Mans Talentt (1881) 43 A Clister lenety made of the decoction of malloweis [etc.]. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 436 As if she meant to cure a gangren'd arm with a lenitive plaister. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 52 Lenitive Purgers should be made use of. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 246 Apples are likewise pectoral, cooling, and lenitive. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 221 The pulp of cassia alone, or in the compound of lenitive electuary. †2. Of persons, their dispositions, etc.: Displaying leniency, gentle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > [adjective] > lenient mildeOE eði modesa1325 easyc1325 sweet1607 lenitive1620 lenient1787 go-easy1901 1620 Swetnam Arraign'd (1880) 78 Old Iago is a froward Lord, Honest but lenatiue. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1848 Taking some advantage of the lenative and tractable disposition of the Emperour. a1652 R. Brome Love-sick Court i. i. 92 in Five New Playes (1659) He has been Too long too lenetive. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. Ded. sig. Ggg3 Such Writers..use the most lenitive language in expressing distastfull matter. B. n. 1. A lenitive medicine or appliance. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > balsam balm1393 balsamumc1540 lenitive1563 balsamo1594 balsam1597 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > soothing medicine lenitive1563 acopon1566 mitigator1586 diminutive1596 assuagement1599 mitigatory1656 levative1657 lenient1672 balsamic1713 demulcent1732 assuasive1829 mitigant1838 obtundent1842 torpent1882 chill pill1981 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. ii. ii. f. 14 Suppositorie, clyster, or ientle lenytiue. 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) i. pr. vi. 18 I will assay a while therfore with lenitiues, & meane fomentations. 1601 Marie Magdalens Lament. Concl. sig. Hiij Thy linative applide, did ease my paine. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iv. 87 The gangren'd sores of their soules were not to be cured by Lenities. 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 29 But Lenitives fomented the Disease. 1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. v. 137 It is so gentle a Lenitive, that three Times the Quantity they usually give will hardly move any Horse. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 74 The gentle lenitives of virtue..might have proved healing ingredients to so deep..a wound. 1788 New London Mag. 429 He demanded a lenitive which would put fire into the wound. 1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 252 Nature..caused to grow out of the earth her sassafras for a sweet lenitive. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) II. xv. 240 Festering wounds had more need of corrosives than lenitives. 2. Anything that softens or soothes; a palliative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > act, means, or source of consolation or relief > one who or that which consoles or relieves comfortera1382 discharger?1537 consolatora1540 assuager1547 cheerer?1567 easera1592 tame-grief1606 lightener?1611 solacer1611 lenitive1614 swager1617 allayer1631 unbender1637 comfortable1650 alleviator1725 consoler1740 soother1780 reassurer1882 a shoulder to cry on1935 1614 A. Jackson (title) Sorrow's Lenitive. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 86 Soule-solacing Lenitiffs of the Gospell. 1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 179 He hath under his greatest Misery the Lenitive of Hope. 1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 161 If such an enormous Crime can admit of any Lenitive. 1743 H. Fielding Journey from this World i. xxi, in Misc. II. 183 It wants the Lenitive which palliates and softens every other Calamity. 1781 H. L. Thrale Let. Nov. in F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 514 This consanguineous Fondness..I consider..one of the Lenitives of Life. 1825 R. Hall Wks. (1833) I. 376 Friendship..the lenitive of our Sorrows and the multiplier of our joys. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 412 Against the artificial he used the artificial as a lenitive. 1891 J. H. Shorthouse Blanche Lady Falaise 205 Mundane prosperity, which is a wonderful lenitive to some natures. Derivatives ˈlenitively adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > [adverb] > leniently remissively1537 lenitivelya1632 leniently1845 a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) i. sig. B2 Yet should these waste you but lenatively. 1726 W. Penn Life in Wks. I. 37 All Laws are to be considered Strictly and Literally, or more Explanatorily and Lenitively. ˈlenitiveness n. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Lenitiveness, softening or assuaging Quality. 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