lenify
To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).
Verb
- To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).
- And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue - 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”,...
- These first infused, to lenify the pain He tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain - 1697, Virgil, “The Twelfth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and...
Origin
From Latin lēnis (“soft, mild”) + -ify. Compare French lénifier. See lenition.