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lenify, v.|ˈliːnɪfaɪ|
Also 6–7 lenefie, -ifie.
[f. L. lēni-s soft, mild + -fy.]
†1. trans. with material object: To relax, make soft or supple (some part of the body); to render (cider) mellow. Also, to mitigate (a physical condition). Obs.
1574Newton Health Mag. 29 Egges..poched..do aswage and lenifie it [the lower part of the belly]. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 49 Oyle of Elder-flowers doth lenifie and purge the skin. a1640Jackson Creed x. xxi. §7 He must..enforce himself..to lenify the rotten sores of their ulcerous consciences. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden lx, The Mucilage [of Fleawort]..helps to lenifie the drynesse of the mouth and throat. 1664Evelyn Pomona Gen. Advt. (1729) 95 Two or three Eggs whole put into an Hogshead of Cider..sometimes rarely lenifies and gentilizes it. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. i. (1713) 250 It is an excellent Pectoral,..lenifies Roughness, takes away Hoarsness.
absol.1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 145 The uses of this [Emulsion] are great..summarily to Lenify, Supple. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 57 Unrefined [Sugar] to levigate and lenify.
2. With immaterial object: To assuage, mitigate, soften, soothe (pain, suffering, etc.). Also, to mitigate (a sentence). Now rare.
1568tr. P. Martyr's Comm. Rom. 355 The feare is eyther lenified, or els sometymes vtterly layd away. 1569Painter Pal. Pleas. (1575) II. Ep. Ded., Musike..lenifyeth sorrowe. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 76 She hung about his knees, and..desired him the sentence might be lenefied. 1622Fletcher Sp. Curate iv. v, This Cataplasme of a well cozen'd Lawyer, Laid to my stomach, lenifies my Fever. 1656Baxter Reformed Pastor 447 Lenifie their minds by a deprecation of offence in a word. 1681Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 260 Lord Treasurer Clifford..could not endure I should lenify my style. 1697Dryden æneid xii. 594 These first infused, to Lenifie the pain. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 184 To lenifie the ill Humour of our Slanderers. 1882Gd. Words 786 She was able to look on the whole blunder with calmness, lenified in the humility it brought.
Hence ˈlenifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 36 It hath a lenifying and anodine quality. 1626Bacon Sylva §51 Cow milke..is..proper for..all manner of Lenifyings. 1650Baxter Saint's R. ii. (1654) 259 The lenifying of exasperated and exulcerated minds. 1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar iii. 37 This he reputes to be hot and moist, and of a lenifying nature. 1758Descr. Thames 177 The Fat of a Trout is of a lenifying and dissolving Nature. |