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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)
- (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 vexations and torments in Colicall dolours, which might be leniated by ſeverall Medicaments
1792, D 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. […]
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Italian
Verb
leniate
- second-person plural present subjunctive of lenire
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