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tranquillize, v.|ˈtræŋkwɪlaɪz|
Also 8– (now U.S.) -ilize.
[f. tranquil + -ize, or ad. F. tranquilliser (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To render tranquil; to calm, soothe.
1623Cockeram, Tranquillize, to quiet or pacifie. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xix, Joys without a name, That, while they rapture, tranquillize the mind. 1782F. Burney Cecilia viii. ii, Tranquillize, I conjure you, your agitated spirits. 1835Willis Pencillings I. iii. 22 It tranquillises the mind as well as the body. 1836Gentl. Mag. Sept. 313/2 He [Lord Stanley] denied that the Bill..would ‘tranquillize’ Ireland, as it was called. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 78 A cigar which he lighted for the purpose tranquilized him.
2. intr. To become tranquil or quiet.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. vii. 79 I'll try, as I ride in my chariot, to tranquillize. 1797A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 396 How much better for England,..that her sons should tranquillize. 1814Byron Corsair ii. iv. 46 'Twas but a moment's peevish hectic past Along his cheek, and tranquillised as fast.
Hence ˈtranquillizing, (U.S.) -ilizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1801Southey Thalaba iii. xxiii, The old Man tranquilly Up his curl'd pipe inhales The tranquillizing herb. 1827E. Sutleffe Ess. Insanity 13 Extract. Glecomæ constituted my principal remedial source. Its tranquillising effects became immediately operative. 1850Lynch Theo. Trinal v. 80 Then [I] beheld the tranquillizing moon-rise. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life i. iii. (1876) 19 The tranquillizing of a sort of uneasiness. 1954Proc. N.Y. Acad. Sci. LIX. 41 Reserpine, like Rauwolfia, acts well in combination with other hypotensive drugs. Perhaps because of its peculiar tranquilizing, sedative effect, it smooths the course of the hypotensive response of such drugs. 1955Sci. Amer. Oct. 80/1 The new tranquilizing drugs have introduced a new regime in the management of patients in mental hospitals. 1962R. Carson Silent Spring ii. 13 When the public protests..it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth. 1974K. Clark Another Part of Wood vi. 223 ‘Never let the Tories get ye, Kenneth’ he [sc. Ramsay Macdonald] would say, as Lady Londonderry offered him a Tranquillising pill. |