NOUN
- remedy that eases pain and discomfort
ADJECTIVE
- moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
How To Use lenitive In A Sentence
- If costiveness offend in this, or any other of the three species, it is to be corrected with suppositories, clysters or lenitives, powder of senna, condite prunes, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Wherefore the word X+S+D+, following may be taken adverbially, as a lenitive of that severity which this word importeth: "Let him smite me;" but The Sermons of John Owen
- Objective To investigate the effectiveness of lenitive pill in the treatment of mild paralytic stomach in diabetics.
- After this splenitive exordium he proceeded to express the opinion that all the hatred and complaints against the Cardinal had arisen from his opposition to the convocation of the states-general. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)