leniate

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 lēniō (「使變柔軟；使緩和」)。

動詞

leniate (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 leniates，現在分詞 leniating，一般過去時及過去分詞 leniated)

1. (棄用) 使緩和，使減輕
   • 1642, anonymous author, 「The Strangling and Death of the Great Turk, and his two Sons」, 出自 The Harleian Miscellany, 第 4 卷, 出版於 1745，第 32 頁:

     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.

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   • 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 [sic] vexations and torments in Colicall dolours, which might be leniated by ſeverall Medicaments […]

   • 1792, D[avid] Lloyd, The Voyage of Life: A Poem，第 169 頁:

     The conſciouſneſs of ſelf-ſecurity
     Prevails o'er every feeling in the breaſt,
     And leniates all our grief. […]

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異序詞

• ateline, lenaite, lineate, nealite

意大利語

動詞

leniate

1. lenire 的第二人稱複數現在時虛擬式

異序詞

• lineate