And in the hospital of the mind, the lenitive and fostering measures have a still larger share in the work of a moral restoration. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
Antony as to Cæsar; the easy Claudius allowed himself to be governed by Agrippina; easy applied to Claudius is only a lenitive, the proper expression is weak. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The young victim of the wisdom of Solomon was boarded with the parish minister, in whose kindness he found a lenitive for the scholastic discipline he underwent. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
After that, it will be convenient to prepare the body by some Julep or Apozeme, or to give some lenitive medicine to free the first region of the body from excrements. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
I rode to Kensington and procured her a lenitive, with which I returned. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
Playing is sometimes an excellent lenitive to calm the mind, and to smother the ardent fire of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Another lenitive by which the throbs of the breast are assuaged, is, the contemplation, not of the same but of different crimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV] Reference
To make it more laxative, add four ounces of lenitive eledluary, or the fame quantity of cream of tartar, or common purging falts. From Wordnik.com. [The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ...] Reference
Keep the body open by means of lenitive electuary and rhubarb; for there is an objection to the tincture I mentioned, as containing alcohol. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
Food and a lenitive were left within their reach, and when able they followed their kinsmen; the alternative is the terrible risk of a wandering life. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania , Volume II] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)] Reference
For, a little imprudently, I must say, Governor Bernard mixed in the administration of the lenitive of the repeal no small acrimony arising from matters of a separate nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)] Reference
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out to us: so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep; and the first word which roused me was Amiens. From Wordnik.com. [A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy] Reference
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out to us: so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep; and the first word which roused me was Amiens. —. From Wordnik.com. [A sentimental journey through France and Italy] Reference
Keep the body open by two evacuations daily, if possible without medicine, if not take the size of a nutmeg of lenitive electuary occasionally, or five grains of rhubarb every night. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Over the past year, readers unexpectantly encountering Kristol in the otherwise lenitive company of Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert have complained on the correspondence page of various discomforts. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
` ` The loss of one we tenderly love, as it is one of the most bitter and biting evils which attend human life, so it wants the lenitive which palliates and softens every other calamity; I mean that great reliever, hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies] Reference
The writer showed conclusively that such and such an unguent or soap often produced an effect exactly opposite to that intended, and the ointment, or the soap, acted as a tonic upon a skin that required a lenitive treatment, or vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference
Momentarily at times when, after reading certain books, his disgust for everyday life was accentuated, he longed for lenitive hours in a cloister, where the monotonous chant of prayers in an incense-laden atmosphere would bring on a somnolence, a dreamy rapture of mystical ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
Long contact with the meaner qualities of men, to whose infection place and patronage are so unhappily exposed, could not fail of forcing to a disproportionate growth any germs of that cynicism always latent in temperaments so exclusively intellectual and unmitigated by any kindly lenitive of humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
(lenitive electuary) may occasionally, early in the morning, be taken. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
A little aroma; on which account they may be considered pectoral and lenitive. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
"lenitive electuary" is made; and apothecaries prepare a medicinal tincture from the fresh flower-buds of the Blackthorn. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
If these will not be sufficient, then let a day be spared from drinking the water, and let the party take some lenitive medicine, as laxative corants, or some such like thing: whereof the Physitian hath ever great choice and variety, wherewith he can fit directly every one his case; to whom present recourse ever ought to be had, when any of these, or the like accidents doe happen, as likewise in all other cases of waight and moment. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
True, some of us had had a go at being lenitive. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
21.l. 2. prescribes it once a day at least: where nature is defective, art must supply, by those lenitive electuaries, suppositories, condite prunes, turpentine, clysters, as shall be shown. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
"The loss of one we tenderly love, as it is one of the most bitter and biting evils which attend human life, so it wants the lenitive which palliates and softens every other calamity; I mean that great reliever, hope. From Wordnik.com. [A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2] Reference
To cureless grief the lenitive, she sought. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author] Reference
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